Open Source Server Operating Systems Backup Software

Info-ZIP portable compression/archiver utilities (Zip, UnZip, WiZ, etc.)

Bacula is a set of computer programs that permit managing backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of computers of different kinds. Based on Source Forge downloads, Bacula is the most popular Open Source backup program.

A portable version of the ARJ archiver, available for a growing number of DOS-like and UNIX-like platforms on a variety of architectures.

X-CD-Roast is a flexible frontend for optical disc authoring. It combines command line tools like "cdrecord", "cdda2wav", "readcd" and "mkisofs" into a nice GTK based graphical user interface.

BackupZit is free, open-source backup software that you run on your own server. One web console manages agents on Windows and Linux machines and backs up files, whole disks (bare-metal recovery), Proxmox VE, VMware ESXi/vCenter and Hyper-V virtual machines without agents inside the guests, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and MySQL/MariaDB databases with point-in-time restore, NAS shares and Microsoft 365 (Exchange Online, OneDrive, SharePoint). Backups are deduplicated, compressed and encrypted (AES-256) before they leave the machine and can go to SFTP, S3-compatible storage, Azure Blob, SMB shares, USB disks or a write-once hardened repository. Immutable copies, backup copy jobs for 3-2-1, automatic restore tests and instant recovery of VMs are included. No cloud service, nothing exposed to the internet. The console is available in 14 languages. Licensed under the GNU AGPLv3; commercial support is offered by MaxZit.

These tools are used to view information about, and to control, Media Changer devices such as Tape and DVD/CD libraries.

A modified version of the vshadow.exe program originally bundled with Microsoft SDK that implements the essential for taking advantage of Volume Shadow Copy Service, without unnecessary stuff. It should come in handy in Windows scripts.

Syncmin is a Webmin module, which synchronizes files between two systems. To optimize the speed of processing, rsync synchronization technology is used, which only copies file differences.

MSSQL Compressed Backup compresses SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008 databases on the fly using bzip2, zip, or gzip compression. It saves the data in the standard SQL Server backup file format so that standard decompression and restoring tools can be us

lzop is a file compressor similar to gzip. Its main advantages over gzip are much higher compression and decompression speed, at the cost of some compression ratio. lzop uses the LZO library for compression services.

The Rembo Wizard is a program for network based PC disk image management. It is based on a commercial product, called Rembo Toolkit. All current and future Rembo users are encouraged to try this highly automated Rembo Toolkit program.

Util that exposes a volume shadow copy (VSS) snapshot as a drive in Windows XP or Windows 2003 Server. Allows you to use rsync, robocopy etc on files normally locked by Windows.

Toucan has moved over to GitHub: https://github.com/PortableApps/Toucan, so please visit us there!

graphical wrapper over 7zip that realizes full and differential backups

AHN Backup is a set of Backup Scripts Written for the Windows x64/32bit platform. Needs a SMB Network Share to function correctly, and the only Requirement is the use of the Internal Windows Backup Utility and a couple of Cygwin Binaries.

This is and old program written in C to read from ADSM tapes without needing the database. This code has been used on AIX machines, but may work on others. No guarantees. It does need some tweeking to get working for NT backed up tapes. This was used

Seeks to be a complete backup suite for computers.

BackUp Tool is a small Perl script that is periodically executed to created backups of certain projects/directory's and only adds the backup if changes have been made since the last time a backup has been made, to do this it makes use of md5 checksums.

Carpathia Backup is a Windows user profile backup tool. It allows easy store, restore and domain/AD migration functions for profiles. Also join and unjoin functions for AD/domains, to support the PC replacement process of companies.

Perl based script for monitoring Legato Networker Servers. It's look like nsrwatch program, with additional features. You can monitor device, sessions, session on single device, group status (completion, work list), pendings, messages in single window.

Fingerprint Copy is a forensic copy utility. The utility creates copy of file(s) and verifies this copies with digital fingerprints(checksum) of the source file(s). The utility is in a early development state. Planed: March 2009 First Command-line Utiliy

GD RCS is a revision contol system which supports repository on removable media. It combines the abilities of PRCS, archiving tools like Zip and backup utilities.

Completely rewritten! This program, now in C#, can browse the content of a directory and list the content in an HTML or XML file.

LazySync is a pure-Java file-synchronization program written for handheld devices (currently supports the Compaq iPAQ) using the SavaJeXE (www.savaje.com) Java operating system.

A backup utility for Windows 32-bit, 64-bit, and CE based systems intended to be easy and simple to use and open source.