Free backup and restore software for linux

Backup Monitor is an rsync backup front-end with a Web interface, which emails reports with an attached summary or logfile.
Backup Monitors configuration system is simple to use and can back up single servers or entire server farms from a single machine.
Custom email tags can be used to sort responses in your mail reader.
Enhancements:
- This release adds MySQL support for logging, cleans up email notifications, and fixes null additions and a whitespace issue.
- The installer [install.php] fills in most config fields automagically for you.
- Log size rotation is configurable.
- PID check has been updated, and now relies on Unix::PID cleanliness.
- RSYNC STDERR is now redirected for email notifications.

Backup project adds instant version control to any file on a Unix system.

Do you hate *.bak and *.20050101 and *.cjn (your initials here) and *.do.not.touch files as much as I do? They litter your filesystem any time someone (and were all guilty of it) needs to back-up a file theyre working on.

But who ever comes back and cleans the mess up? At what point is an old backed-up file no longer needed? And what about when you need that backup file only to discover that its missing, or you didnt capture one because you didnt want to add clutter? Backup is my answer to all that. It adds instantly available, reliable version control to every file in the filesystem.

Backup is a lightweight interface to the Subversion svn_fs library. It uses the powerful version control software as a backend to a simple and minimalistic (though effective) user interface. It is designed for use on Linux/Unix (including OS X) systems as a method of archiving configuration files that change semi-frequently, but do not necessarily warrent their own version control mechanism or repository. Things like "/etc/hosts" or "httpd.conf".

It can create a backup of any file without having to import it first, without worrying about setting up new repositories, and (because it speaks directly to the FS layer) without littering hidden ".svn" (or even worse, visable "CVS") directories all over the place. It does this by using a single global "archive," which contains a filesystem that mirrors your root as you add to it. You can view the archive and restore files, do diffs, and move things around as necessary. For more complex administration, the archive is a standard Subversion file system which can be administrated with any compatable client (including the svn command line tools).

The current version is knocked together in Perl. Its alpha, but it is pretty functional... at least for a proof of concept. Eventually I plan to re-write it in C... but we all know about "the best laid plans." In the mean while, the Perl version does work... mostly. The only real trick is that you need to compile and install the Subversion bindings for it Perl. There are some other modules you may need as well, but theyre all fairly standard.

Usage:

You probably shouldnt if you youre doing mission-critical work. Its still alpha code after-all. But if you do decide to give it a spin, dont blame me for any breakage (the only thing that should damage existing files is the combination of -r and -o, which will overwrite during a restore).

Relax and Recover (abbreviated rear) is a highly modular disaster recovery framework for GNU/Linux based systems.
The disaster recovery information (and maybe the backups) can be stored via the network, local on hard disks or USB devices, DVD/CD-R, tape, etc. The result is also a bootable image that is capable of booting via PXE, DVD/CD and tape (OBDR).
Main features:
- Focus on Disaster Recovery
- Modular concept
- For Linux and other Unix-like operations systems
- No external dependancies - use only standard software supplied with the distribution
- encryption (optional) - openssl ?
- Linux: kernel > 2.6 supported (no kernel 2.2/2.4 support !)
- User friendly - minimal output, use log file for error messages and details
The aim is to make rear as least demanding as possible, it will require only the applications neccessary to fulfill the job rear is configured for. All other applications will be copied to the rescue system if they are present.
Enhancements:
- Added SELinux suppport for NETFS Did restore tests with NETFS - see video 2006-08-31 GSS
- Added NETFS support BACKUP=NETFS 2006-08-30 GSS
- finally fixed bug in mkrescue-functions.sh about c0d0p 0 (DEVwP=1)
- Added RHEL ES/AS support 2006-07-21 GD
- start the NFS/CIFS tar backup-restore cyclus
- added support for Software RAID

aB Backup Tools is a toolset for creating and maintaining backups and recoveries of important data on your system.
Enhancements:
- memory leaks fixed,
- options optimized,
- some look changes.

Hydra Backup System is a full backup system for UNIX-like systems.
Main features:
- Archives directories and stores archives on one or more FTP servers
- Includes a graphical client (built with the PyQT toolkit) and a command-line client for local or remote backup administration
- Control how often directories are backed up (daily, weekly, or monthly)
- Exclude directories from backups (e.g. backup /etc/ without backing up /etc/apache)
- Uses Pyro for client-server communication

IAMBACKUP provides a set of classes for backing up and restoring a MySQL database.

IAM backup is package made of two classes. One performs the backup of the selected MySQL database, and the second restores the database.

Both classes support gzip-compressed files for improved performance. When performing the backup, the user is prompted to download the backup file, straight from the browser.

Alternately, the backup can be stored on the local server at a predefined location. Restoring the database (or copying it to another server) is just as easy.

Dump/Restore project examines files in a filesystem, determines which ones need to be backed up, and copies those files to a specified disk, tape or other storage medium.
Subsequent incremental backups can then be layered on top of the full backup.
The restore command performs the inverse function of dump; it can restore a full backup of a filesystem.
Single files and directory subtrees may also be restored from full or partial backups in interractive mode.
Enhancements:
- This is a maintenance release, fixing a few bugs related to the restoration of ACLs and huge backups (symtab over 2GB in size).
- The directory hash indexing has been made optional since it may require too much memory when restoring huge backups.

DYS Backup is just a small script to backup your system.
You can ajust it to your needs as you like. It is made for me, but you are free to use it in the terms of the GNU General Public License.
Enhancements:
- Backups can be rotated and timestamped.
- Self encryption with GPG can be done.
- Pre and post script functions can be used.
- Package data was added for Red Hat/Fedora.
- Conditional compression of encryption is used.
- The user may choose between bzip2 and gzip.