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Info-ZIP project
Info-ZIP portable compression/archiver utilities
Info-ZIP portable compression/archiver utilities (Zip, UnZip, WiZ, etc.) -
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7-Zip
A free file archiver for extremely high compression
7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio. 7-Zip works in Windows 11 / 10 / 8 / 7 / Vista / XP / 2022 / 2019 / 2016 / 2012 / 2008 / 2003 / 2000. You can use 7-Zip on any computer, including a computer in a commercial organization. You don't need to register or pay for 7-Zip. And there is command line version for Linux and macOS. Most of the source code is under the GNU LGPL license. The unRAR code is under a mixed license with GNU LGPL + unRAR restrictions. Check the license for details. -
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TeleDrive
Unlimited Telegram MTProto personal cloud storage with zero monthly fe
TeleDrive is an open-source, high-performance desktop virtual filesystem client that turns your private Telegram storage channels into an encrypted, unthrottled, unlimited personal cloud drive. Unlike traditional cloud providers (Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud) that charge recurring monthly subscriptions ($10–$20/mo) for storage you never truly own, TeleDrive connects directly to Telegram’s global MTProto datacenters with zero intermediate relay servers and zero hosting costs. Key Highlights: • Zero Monthly Rent: Repurpose Telegram's free, distributed cloud channels into an encrypted personal vault. • Native Tauri 2.0 & Rust Performance: Sub-millisecond binary IPC streaming with under 250MB RAM consumption under heavy workloads. • In-App Document Suite: Multi-page continuous PDF viewer, interactive sortable CSV data studio, and audio/video streaming with instant seekable playback. • Built-In Developer Studio: CodeMirror 6 editor with syntax highlighting for 20+ languages and p -
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zpaqfranz
Zpaq compatible archiver for Win, Linux, Free/OpenBSD, Solaris & MacOS
High-Performance Archiver & Backup for Mission-Critical Data Bulletproof archival for multi-TB datasets, NAS, and VM backups Built for speed: multi-core CPUs and modern SSD/NVMe drives to achieve 1 GB/s+ throughput, up to 3x faster than 7-Zip Far more efficient and versatile than Time Machine or ZFS snapshots Key Features: ✓ Deduplicated, incremental & versioned backups ✓ Anti-ransomware integrity checks & deep validation ✓ Multi-hash support: SHA-2, SHA-3, BLAKE3, XXH3 & more ✓ Strong encryption & low bandwidth overhead for Cloud/NAS/USB ✓ Full deduplicated disk imaging ✓ Read-only Archive Mounting in filesystem ✓ Includes GUI (Win/Linux/Mac): sourceforge.net/projects/catpaq Cross-Platform & Lightweight: Runs on Windows (inc. XP), Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, TrueNAS, Synology, QNAP, ARM, and ESXi. 15+ years of active development • 100% FOSS • Forever Free github.com/fcorbelli/zpaqfranz www.francocorbelli.it/zpaqfranz -
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plakar
plakar is a backup solution powered by Kloset and ptar
plakar is an open-source backup solution designed to protect files, application data, and contextual metadata in a scalable way. It goes beyond basic file copying by storing data and its surrounding context inside Kloset, an immutable open-source data store. The project focuses on making backups easy to start while still supporting advanced data protection scenarios. It emphasizes security through end-to-end encryption for both backup data and metadata. Plakar is also built for reliability, using immutable storage to reduce the risk of accidental modification or corruption. Its main value is giving users and organizations a practical backup system that combines simple operation, strong protection, and support for large datasets with limited memory usage. -
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Redo Rescue: Backup and Recovery
Backup and Recovery Made Easy
Redo Rescue Backup and Recovery can backup and restore an entire system in minutes with a point-and-click interface anyone can use. Bare metal restore to a new, blank drive and be up and running in minutes. Supports saving to and restoring from local disks or shared network drives. Selectively restore partitions and remap them to different locations on the target drive. Additional tools included for partition editing, web browsing, and more. Runs from live CD/USB; no installation needed. Website: http://redorescue.com Forum: https://sourceforge.net/p/redobackup/discussion/ GitHub: https://github.com/redorescue/redorescue Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redo_Backup_and_Recovery -
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Fast and user-friendly free tool for drivers's backup, restoration and removal with command line options, automatic restoration from CD\DVD and path formatting. DriverBackup! includes also an interactive command line builder.
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DAR - Disk ARchive
For full, incremental, compressed and encrypted backups or archives
DAR is a command-line backup and archiving tool that uses selective compression (not compressing already compressed files), strong encryption, may split an archive in different files of given size and provides on-fly hashing, supports differential backup with or without binary delta, ftp and sftp protocols to remote cloud storage Archive internal's catalog, allows very quick restoration even a single file from a huge, eventually sliced, compressed, encrypted archive eventually located on a remote cloud storage, by only reading/fetching the necessary data to perform the operation. Dar saves *all* UNIX inode types, takes care of hard links, sparse files as well as Extended Attributes (MacOS X file forks, Linux ACL, SELinux tags, user attributes) and some Filesystem Specific Attributes (Linux ext2/3/4, Mac OS X HFS+) more details at: http://dar.linux.free.fr/doc/Features.html -
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restic
Fast, secure and efficient backup program
Restic is a backup program that is designed to be easy to use, fast, secure and efficient. It makes doing backups a fast and frictionless process, so you can backup your files every day if you need to. It supports backends for storing backups natively, including on the local directory, sftp server (via SSH), HTTP REST server (protocol rest server), OpenStack Swift, among many others. It also uses cryptography to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of your data. Restic supports Windows, macOS and Linux operating systems, as well as FreeBSD and OpenBSD. -
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FreeArc combines best 7-zip and RAR features: auto-selected LZMA/PPMD/Multimedia compression, 1gb dictionary, exe/dict/delta data filters, updatable solid archives, SFXes, recovery record, AES+Twofish+Serpent encryption, Linux support and much more...
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RoboMirror's aim is to provide a very simple and user-centered GUI for Robocopy to allow for easy synchronization of two directory trees, e.g., to perform a robust incremental backup, both locally (e.g., to an external hard disk) and across the network. Additionally, RoboMirror supports volume shadow copies. By using shadow copies, all files can be copied, including files locked by running processes (Outlook, SQL Server...).
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Kopia
Cross-platform backup tool for Windows, macOS and Linux
Kopia is a fast, secure, and open-source backup and restore tool designed to help users and administrators protect important data by creating encrypted, deduplicated snapshots and storing them in a range of local, network, or cloud storage locations. Instead of imaging entire machines, it focuses on backing up selected files and directories with efficient incremental backups that only transfer changed data, which reduces storage and bandwidth needs. Kopia has both a command-line interface for automation and scripting as well as a graphical UI for interactive use, making it suitable for advanced users and those who prefer visual tools. Its architecture supports end-to-end encryption, optional compression, and deduplication, so multiple backups can share data efficiently, and repositories can be stored securely even in untrusted locations. -
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luckyBackup
...a powerful, fast and reliable backup & sync tool.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ windows users, note that luckybackup is originally developed for linux and the windows port (version) is under heavy development at the moment. Feedback is more than welcome and will be appreciated, but please consider the above before you provide a negative review. windows dedicated forum: https://sourceforge.net/p/luckybackup/discussion/2264489/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -
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FreeFileSync
Free data backup software to synchronize files and folders
FreeFileSync is a free Open Source software that helps you synchronize files and synchronize folders for Windows, Linux and macOS. It is designed to save your time setting up and running data backups while having nice visual feedback along the way. _______________________________________________________________ DOWNLOAD LINKS (official homepage): https://freefilesync.org/ -
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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.
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Rockstor
BTRFS based NAS and private cloud storage solution
Rockstor is a Network Attached Storage (NAS) and private cloud storage solution based on advanced Linux technologies like BTRFS, Docker and others. In addition to standard NAS features like file sharing via NFS, Samba, SFTP and AFP, advanced features such as online volume management, CoW Snapshots, asynchronous replication, compression, and bitrot protection are supported based on BTRFS. Rockstor also provides apps like ownCloud, Syncthing, OpenVPN, and Plex to name a few. Apps or "Rock-ons" are powered by a Docker-based application hosting framework. And new ones can be simply added. These Rock-ons, combined with advanced NAS features, turn Rockstor into a private cloud storage solution accessible from anywhere, giving users complete control of cost, ownership, privacy and data security. Rockstor UI is written in Javascript, making it simple to manage everything from your Web browser. The backend is written in Python and exposes RESTful APIs to easily extend functionality! -
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AutoMySQLBackup
Automatic MySQL Backup
AutoMySQLBackup with a basic configuration will create Daily, Weekly and Monthly backups of one or more of your MySQL databases from one or more of your MySQL servers. Other Features include: - Email notification of backups - Backup Compression and Encryption - Configurable backup rotation - Incremental database backups Time for a new maintainer.. I first created AutoMySQLBackup in 2002 and since then it's helped many thousands of admins keep their databases backed up.. I always had one basic requirement and that was that it should always be super simple to initially get working.. I would like to hand it over now to someone with the time and skill to keep it updated and take it further.. If you would like to take over the project please get in touch.. -
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UrBackup
Open Source Client/Server Network Backup System
Efficient Client-Server Backup system for Linux, macOS and Windows. A client for Windows, FreeBSD and Linux lets you backup open files and complete partition images (Windows). Backups are stored to disks in a efficient way (deduplication) on either Windows or Linux servers. -
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Velero
Backup and migrate Kubernetes applications and their persistent volume
Backup and migrate Kubernetes resources and persistent volumes. Velero is an open source tool to safely backup and restore, perform disaster recovery, and migrate Kubernetes cluster resources and persistent volumes. Reduces time to recovery in case of infrastructure loss, data corruption, and/or service outages. Enables cluster portability by easily migrating Kubernetes resources from one cluster to another. Offers key data protection features such as scheduled backups, retention schedules, and pre or post-backup hooks for custom actions. Backup your Kubernetes resources and volumes for an entire cluster, or part of a cluster by using namespaces or label selectors. Set schedules to automatically kickoff backups at recurring intervals. Configure pre and post-backup hooks to perform custom operations before and after Velero backups. -
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Back In Time
An easy-to-use backup tool for GNU Linux using rsync in the back
Back In Time is an easy-to-use tool to backup files and folders. It runs on GNU Linux (not on Windows or OS X/macOS) and provides a command line tool backintime and a GUI backintime-qt both written in Python3. It uses rsync to take manual or scheduled snapshots and stores them locally or remotely through SSH. Each snapshot is in its own folder with copies of the original files, but unchanged files are hard-linked between snapshots to save storage space. It was inspired by FlyBack. -
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Stash Kubernetes
Backup your Kubernetes Stateful Applications
A complete Kubernetes native disaster recovery solution for backup and restore your volumes and databases in Kubernetes on any public and private clouds. Backup your data in Kubernetes native way. Stash uses Custom Resource Definition (CRD) to specify targets and behaviors of the backup and restore process. Schedule a backup for your workloads in the same way you deployed them into Kubernetes. Back up your Kubernetes volumes mounted in a workload. Stash supports Deployment, DaemonSet, StatefulSet, ReplicaSet, ReplicationController, OpenShift DeploymentConfig etc. You can also backup stand-alone PVC with "ReadWriteMany" access mode. Back up your databases deployed in Kubernetes. Stash supports backup of MariaDB, Redis, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch and Percona XtraDB, Etcd databases. It seemingly integrates with KubeDB. It is now a recommended method to backup up KubeDB-supported databases. -
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Vorta Backup Client
Desktop Backup Client for Borg Backup
Vorta is a backup client for macOS and Linux desktops. It integrates the mighty Borg Backup with your favorite desktop environment to protect your data from disk failure, ransomware and theft. -
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Katalog
Catalog your devices to search, analyze, and backup your files.
Catalog your devices to search, analyze, and backup your files: - Create catalogs from different sources or devices - Search and explore files even when the devices are disconnected - Organize and backup your collection of files, and get statistics User documentation: - Get started/Tutorial: https://stephanecouturier.github.io/Katalog/docs/tutorial - Download (Linux Flathub): https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.stephanecouturier.Katalog - Documentation: https://stephanecouturier.github.io/Katalog/docs/Overview - Development: https://stephanecouturier.github.io/Katalog/docs/Development-Overview - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Katalog-107117844916308 -
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CopyMastro
Simple application to copy files and folders.
Simple application to copy files and folders for Windows, Linux and MacOSX. -
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SMS Backup+
Backup Android SMS, MMS and call log to Gmail / Gcal / IMAP
This is a fork of the now-defunct Android backup tool SMS Backup. It uses Gmail/IMAP to perform SMS, MMS and call log backups over the network. It is important that you perform the first backup manually. SMS Backup+ needs to know whether you want to upload messages currently stored on your device or not. SMS Backup+ can also backup and restore your call logs. It stores all calls using a separate label (defaults to Call log, but can be changed in "Advanced settings"). If you wish you can set this to the same value as SMS, to make all backups use the same label.
