Simple Backup Files

This UNIX program backups files and directories, to a directory.

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Name	Modified	Size
simplebackup 1.82.zip	2025-09-26	15.4 kB
Readme.txt	2025-09-15	584 Bytes
License.txt	2019-07-16	35.1 kB
Totals: 3 Items		51.2 kB

Simple Backup can be used to backup and compress, files and directories, to a destination directory.

Usage: simplebackup SOURCE1 SOURCE2... SOURCEn   DESTINATION_DIRECTORY

It creates a new directory with a date stamp in its name.

Simple Backup works with Linux, macOS, and FreeBSD.

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To restore data from a Simple Backup archive, one can use tar -xf


Note: Simple Backup needs zstd (Zstandard) to be installed, usually with the package manager of your distribution.

Source: Readme.txt, updated 2025-09-15

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This UNIX program backups files and directories, to a directory.

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