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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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Clonezilla
A partition and disk imaging/cloning program
Clonezilla is a partition and disk imaging/cloning program similar to True Image®. It saves and restores only used blocks in hard drive. Two types of Clonezilla are available, Clonezilla live and Clonezilla SE (Server Edition). -
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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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openmediavault
The open network attached storage solution
OpenMediaVault is the next generation network attached storage (NAS) solution based on Debian Linux. It contains services like SSH, (S)FTP, SMB/CIFS, DAAP media server, RSync, BitTorrent client and many more. Thanks to the modular design of the framework it can be enhanced via plugins. OpenMediaVault is primarily designed to be used in home environments or small home offices, but is not limited to those scenarios. It is a simple and easy to use out-of-the-box solution that will allow everyone to install and administrate a Network Attached Storage without deeper knowledge. -
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p7zip is a quick port of 7z.exe and 7za.exe (command line version of 7zip, see www.7-zip.org) for Unix. 7-Zip is a file archiver with highest compression ratio. Since 4.10, p7zip (like 7-zip) supports little-endian and big-endian machines.
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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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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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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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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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Partclone is a project like the well-known backup utility "Partition Image" a.k.a partimage. Partclone provide utilities to back up used blocks and design for higher compatibility of the file system using supported library like e2fslibs.
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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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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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Areca-Backup is a file backup software that supports incremental, image and delta backup on local drives or FTP servers. Areca-Backup also allows you to browse your backups and navigate among different version of the files contained in your archives.
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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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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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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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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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zrepl
One-stop ZFS backup & replication solution (fork)
zrepl is a replication tool for ZFS, providing powerful features for managing backups and synchronizations. It is tailored to handle ZFS snapshot management across multiple systems. -
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zpaqfranz
Zpaq compatible archiver for Win, Linux, Free/OpenBSD, Solaris & MacOS
Forget pruning! Get forever storage of your files, managing critical backups with bulletproof archival solutions and enterprise-grade reliability Far more efficient than Time Machine or ZFS snapshots-perfect for VM backups and permanent archiving, effortlessly handling TBs and millions of files Optimized for cloud/NAS/USB with ultra-low bandwidth, military-grade encryption, and 1GB/s+ speeds on modern hardware GUI (Win/Linux/Mac) https://sourceforge.net/projects/catpaq Why choose catpaq/zpaqfranz? ✓ Complete: single/multi-file storage architecture ✓ Modern: SHA-2, SHA-3, BLAKE3, XXH3 and more ✓ Paranoid: anti-ransomware data verification with integrity checks ✓ Runs everywhere: TrueNAS, ARM-powered, even ESXi ✓ Lightning-fast: multi-core processing + hardware acceleration ✓ Deduplicated disk imaging ✓ Battle-tested: 15+ years of active development since 2009 https://github.com/fcorbelli/zpaqfranz https://www.francocorbelli.it/zpaqfranz 100% FOSS • forever free -
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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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ZeroByte
Backup automation for self-hosters
ZeroByte is a self-hosted backup automation platform built around the robust Restic backup engine, delivering encrypted, compressed, and schedulable data protection with a modern web interface. It targets self-hosting enthusiasts, homelab operators, and small teams who need a straightforward way to manage backups across diverse storage backends without resorting to complex scripts or CLI-only tools. Zerobyte lets you configure automated jobs with flexible schedules and retention policies, monitor backup jobs through a centralized dashboard, and choose from multiple source types (like local directories, NFS, SMB, WebDAV, and more), all while ensuring end-to-end encryption via Restic underneath. The system also supports common remote destinations such as S3-compatible storage or REST servers and encapsulates much of the complexity of backup logic so users can focus on reliability and restore confidence rather than manual orchestration. -
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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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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.
