Open Source Unix Shell File Compression Software

The littleutils include duplicate file finders (repeats, repeats.pl, repeats.py), image optimizers (opt-jpg, opt-png, opt-gif, recomp-jpg), file rename tools (lowercase, uppercase, pren), archive recompressors (to-gzip, to-bzip2, to-bzip3, to-7zip, to-lzma, to-lzip, to-xz), a tempfile utility (tempname), file property tools (filedate, filemode, filenode, fileown, filesize, and lrealpath), and others. See the README file for more details.

CDriveBack backs up partitions for Novice End Users. If the user boots the Live-CD, waits for it to settle, then hits enter, their C: Drive will be backed up. There are also advanced options.

A shell script which determines by brute force the best compression format (bzip2, gzip, Z, zip, etc.) and which compression level to use in order to archive a file the smallest possible.

A postgresql port of the automysqlbackup script.

GNet Server - Network compression client/server software. Compresses data over slow networks to save on the cost of bandwidth. Server is developed for Unix and Windows platforms, The client will run on Windows based PCs.

MyBackupTcl is a software that allows users (or a system administrators) to create the backup of own files in easy and automatic way. It includes bzip2 compression,GNU PGP,dvd and cd ISO,FTP,e-mail,automatic dumping for mysql,SVN,Trac and much more.

A simple BASH script to do nightly backups to tarballs to a seperate hard drive (not to tape). Supports full and incremental backups. Ideal for linux home users to easily backup all or parts of their system, provided they have an extra hard drive.

This project has moved to GitHub https://github.com/Zipios/Zipios Zipios is a C++ library for reading and writing Zip archive files. Access to the data of individual entries is provided through standard C++ iostreams. A simple read-only virtual file system that mounts regular directories and zip files is also provided.

A small ruby script that provides an easy and highly configurable interface for Rsync and Tar. It features incremental backup with compressed option and mail support.

A shell script that backup linux files and send to a windows share. It uses tar, sed and smbclient.

CvsKnit is a toolset to automate knitting up CVS repositories from existing source packages. This is a sub-project of minix-up project (SF.jp).

A resource-conscientious, flexible, modular, platform-independent, scalable and robust server based on ircd-ratbox.

A shell script to copy long files into several floppy disks. It tar, compress, uuencoded and split input files. Then copy the generated files in the necessary number of floppy disks. After, all the process can be reversed through the script refloppy

A set of bash-functions (probably becomes scripts instead) that perform backups (full and incremental) on blockdevices with encryption and compression using standard tools like tar and mcrypt.

Take either manual or scheduled backups using find, egrep, cpio and bzip. Supports weekly full backups, exclusions and compression. See http://bandcamp.tv/quickbackup for mailing list info and downloads