Software Map

REOBack Backup Solution (pronounced "Ray-o-back") is a simple backup solution designed for Linux users and system administrators. It is designed to be simple to set up, and easy to use. It is great as a quick solution for those who procrastinate about backups. It supports automatic full/incremental backups of files you define, remote backups via SCP, SMB, NFS, or FTP, as well as auto deletion of old backups.

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.

CD-R/W discs can be written with a technique called packet or incremental writing. This allows transparent and buffer-underrun-free recording for CD recorders that support this method. No more mastering of .iso images; just mount your CD-ROM read/write and copy files directly to it.

cdbkup performs full or incremental backups of local
or remote filesystems onto CD-R(W)s. Results are
stored as tarballs on single or multi-session ISO
CDs. It works either interactively for multi-CD
backups, or non-interactively for single-CD backups.

Rsync Incremental Backup Script (RIBS) is an
incremental backup system written using PHP,
rsync, ssh, and cp. It can backup local
machines and other networked devices, and is
designed to be highly configurable and
informative for system administrators. It
performs a large amount of error checking,
and includes logging and email capabilities.

GNU cpio copies files into or out of a cpio or tar archive. The archive can be another file on the disk, a magnetic tape, or a pipe. GNU cpio supports the following archive formats: binary, old ASCII, new ASCII, crc, HPUX binary, HPUX old ASCII, old tar, and POSIX.1 tar. The tar format is provided for compatability with the tar program. By default, cpio creates binary format archives, for compatibility with older cpio programs. When extracting from archives, cpio automatically recognizes which kind of archive it is reading and can read archives created on machines with a different byte-order.

Box Backup is an online backup system for Unix.
Backups are encrypted, and changed files uploaded
using an rsync-like changes-only algorithm.

GNU Rottlog is a replacement to Red Hat's logrotate. It has similar syntax, but more powerful features to cut and store logs.

mbackup is a framework for building backup applications.

The gzip Recovery Toolkit attempts to automate the recovery of data from corrupted gzip files (including tarballs) through a program called gzrecover. This package is still very experimental at this point.