Backup software tools

• Amanda : Amanda, or the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver is an open source computer archiving tool that is able to back up data residing on multiple computers on a network. It uses a client–server model and includes:the backup server and client, itself a tape server, an index server. All three servers do not necessarily need to run on the same machine.Amanda was initially developed at the University of Maryland and is released under a BSD-style license.
• Areca : Areca Backup is a personal file backup software developed in Java. It is released under the General Public License (GPL) v2.
• Ark : Ark is an archiving tool for KDE, included into kdeutils package.The latest stable release is version 2.12, included in KDE 4.2. Ark is a free and open source software, available for Linux and similar operating systems under the GNU General Public License (GPL), Version 2.
• BackupPC : BackupPC is a free backup software suite with a web-based frontend. The cross-platform server will run on any Linux, Solaris, or UNIX based server. No client is necessary, as the server is itself a client for several protocols that are handled by other services native to the client OS.BackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up Linux, WinXX and MacOSX PCs and laptops to a server's disk. BackupPC is highly configurable and easy to install and maintain.
• Bacula : Bacula is an open source, enterprise level computer backup system for heterogeneous networks. It is designed to automate tasks that had often required intervention from a systems administrator or computer operator.Bacula supports Linux, UNIX and Windows backup clients, and a range of professional backup devices including tape libraries. Administrators and operators can configure the system via a command line console, GUI or web interface; its back-end is a catalog of information stored by MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQLite.
• Clonezilla : Clonezilla is a free software disaster recovery, disk cloning and deployment solution. Clonezilla is designed by Steven Shaiu and developed by the NCHC Free Software Labs in Taiwan. Clonezilla SE provides multicast support similar to Norton Ghost Corporate Edition.
• cpio : cpio is a binary file archiver and a file format. The cpio software utility was meant as a tape archiver that was originally part of PWB/UNIX, and that was also part of UNIX System III and UNIX System V. However, the use of its Research Unix counterpart, tar, and the freely available versions thereof, are widely considered to be a better solution. cpio's use by the RPM Package Manager and by the Linux kernel 2.6 series' initramfs continues to make cpio an important archive format.
• cwRsync : cwRsync is a packaging of Rsync and Cygwin. You can use cwRsync for fast remote file backup and synchronization.
• dump : dump is a Unix program used to back up file systems. It operates on blocks, below filesystem abstractions such as files and directories. Dump can back up a file system to a tape or another disk. It is often used across a network by piping its output through bzip2 then SSH. A dump utility first appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX.
• Duplicity : In computing, Duplicity is a software suite that provides easy encrypted, versioned, remote backup of files requiring little of the remote server. It does this using GnuPG, tar, and rdiff. To transmit data it can use ssh/scp, local file access, rsync, ftp, and Amazon S3.
• FlyBack : FlyBack is an open source backup utility based on rsync and modeled loosely after Apple's Time Machine.FlyBack, like many rsync-based backup utilities, creates incremental backups of files which can be restored at a later date. FlyBack presents a chronological view of a file system, allowing individual files or directories to be previewed or retrieved one at a time.
• Grsync : Grsync is a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for rsync, the most used directory synchronization tool under Linux / Unix System.[citation needed] Grsync is released under the GPL license, so it is Free Software, and makes use of the GTK+ UI toolkit. It doesn't support all of rsync features, but can be effectively used to synchronize local directories and supports remote targets in a limited way.Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Duplicity is free software.
• Mondo : Mondo Rescue is a free disaster recovery solution. It supports Linux (i386, x86_64, ia64) and FreeBSD (i386). It's packaged for multiple distributions (Red Hat, RHEL, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSuSE, SLES, Mandriva, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo). It also supports tapes, disks, USB devices, network and CD/DVD as backup media, multiple filesystems, LVM, software and hardware RAID.
• Partimage : Partimage is a disk cloning utility for Linux/UNIX environments. Partimage can save partitions in many formats to a disk image. Utilities such as Partimage are useful in a number of situations which are commonly encountered by network administrators as well as computer users who maintain their own systems.
• rsync : rsync is a software application for Unix systems which synchronizes files and directories from one location to another while minimizing data transfer using delta encoding when appropriate. An important feature of rsync not found in most similar programs/protocols is that the mirroring takes place with only one transmission in each direction. rsync can copy or display directory contents and copy files, optionally using compression and recursion.Released under the GNU General Public License, rsync is free software.
• TimeVault : TimeVault is a free and open-source backup utility that monitors files for changes and takes snapshots after some user-specified delay.It is a Linux alternative to Time Machine from Apple which is included with Mac OS X v10.5 "Leopard".
• Toucan : Toucan is a free, open source file synchronization, backup and encryption tool for Microsoft Windows, published by PortableApps.com. Toucan was written to be portable and to provide more advanced functions than the standard PortableApps.com utilities.
  Toucan is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
• Zmanda : Zmanda Recovery Manager is a perl-based utility used to automate backup and recovery of MySQL databases. It is released under the GNU General Public License.
  Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL is used by MySQL DBAs to do backup and recovery of live MySQL databases - which can be local or remote. ZRM uses most appropriate backup method based on particular storage engine being used by MySQL or particular storage infrastructure being used.