Free quick recovery software for linux

Quick RSS project quickly adds a RSS feed to a web-based news aggregator.

It adds a "Add RSS feed to..." menu to the right-click context menu, allowing you to quickly add a RSS feed to a web-based news aggregator.

For the moment, it only supports My Yahoo as a feed target, since its the only one I really use. Its nothing fancy, but I find it quite useful as it enables 2-click feed subscription instead of the usually lengthy procedure.

Make CD-ROM Recovery makes a bootable (El Torito) disaster recovery image (CDrec.iso), including backups of the linux system to the same CD-ROM (or CD-RW) if space permits, or to a multi-volume CD-ROM set. Otherwise, the backups can be stored on another local disk, NFS disk or (remote) tape.

After a disaster (disk crash or system intrusion) the system can be booted from the CD-ROM and one can restore the complete system as it was (at the time mkCDrec was run) with the command /etc/recovery/start-restore.sh

Disk cloning (clone-dsk.sh script) allows one to restore a disk to another disk (the destination disk does not have to be of the same size as it calculates the partition layout itself). A thrid script, restore-fs.sh, will restore only one filesystem to a partition of your choice, and the user can choose with which filesystem the partition has to be formatted.

Linux 2.2.x, 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernels are supported, and if size of the kernel is not too big a boot floppy can be made, otherwise a 2.88 Mb boot floppy will be emulated on CD-ROM.

MkCDrec supports ext2 , ext3, minix, xfs , jfs, reiserfs file systems, LVM and software RAID (multiple devices). Each file system is backed up as a compressed tar archive (including the tar log). The compress program used is the users choice (compress, gzip, bzip2, lzop,...)

But there is more: msdos, fat, vfat and ntfs mounted partitions are recognized and are saved as compressed dumps (on CD, tape, etc.)
The user has the possibility to encrypt all backups with openssl if desired (see the Config.sh configuration file for more information).

To restore your system completely just boot from the first CD-ROM made by mkCDrec and type "/etc/recovery/start-restore.sh " to restore everything from CD. Automatic Disaster Recovery and One Button Disaster Recovery are supported by mkCDrec too.
With the clone-dsk.sh script one can restore selective a disk or partitions to another free disk.

mkCDrec supports IDE (inclusive ATA), SCSI disks, hardware RAID based disks (e.g. Compaq SMART2 Disk Array), LVM and software RAID. With an El-Torito CD-ROM you can boot from an IDE or SCSI based CD-ROM drive on IA32/64, powermac and x86_64 GNU/Linux based computer systems only.

Quick and Dirty Transcoder provides a simple shell script that adds transcoding support to Amarok using gstreamer.
The only prerequisites are that you have gstreamer installed and the appropriate plugins.
Quick and Dirty Transcoder works with transcoding when copying files to a media player and also adds a context menu to allow you to transcode files in your collection. When doing the latter, the transcoded file will be written to the same directory as the original file.
You can configure dirtyxcode by creating a file in your home directory ~/.dirtyxcode.sh. The format of the configuration is a shell script that will be sourced by dirtyxcode. You can use this to control how dirtyxcode constructs the gstreamer pipeline. For example, to change the flacencoder element add the following:
flac_enc="myflacencoder myflacencopt=foo"
You can also add options to the existing encoders by setting
< format >_enc_options, for example to change the preset quality
setting for the mp3 encoder (lame), add the following to your
~/.dirtyxcode.sh file.
mp3_enc_options="preset=extreme"
The default gstreamer plugins used by Quick and Dirty Transcoder are:
- wav: wavenc
- mp3: lame
- ogg: vorbisenc
- m4a: faac
- aac: faac
- flac: flacenc

Quick Image Viewer (qiv) is a very small and fast GDK/Imlib image viewer designed to replace the classic image viewers like xv or xloadimage. Quick Image Viewer program runs on FreeBSD, Linux (libc5/glibc), Solaris (SunOS) and HP-UX.
Main features:
- moving & zooming image in fullscreen mode.
- setting image as x11 background (centered,tiled,stretched..) with user settable background color
- fullscreen viewing with a great statusbar
- external "qiv-command" program support
- screensaver mode
- brightness/contrast/gamma correction
- real transparency
- maxpect (zoom to screen size while preserving aspect ratio)
- scale_down (scale down to big images to fit screen size)
- slideshow (with random order if you want)
- filename filer
- flip horizontal/vertical, rotate left/right
- delete function (move to .qiv-trash/)
- jump to image number x, jump forward/backward x images
Enhancements:
- This release has some bugfixes and new options.

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

Quick.Forum provides a simple, fast message board with category filtering and a flat file backend.
Quick.Forum is a fast, simple, and multilingual message board. It is based on text files and features a search engine, categories, and filters.
There is full administration for topics, answers, and categories.
Forum topics are displayed in a single window with color differentiation between categories.
Categories can be filtered on a per-user basis.
Main features:
- Freeware - based on licensed GPL with additional conditions,
- Simple installation - This tool is based on a secure flat files (SQL base not required). Installation needs just a few minutes and just the basic knowledge about FTP connection use,
- Stability - Application has been used since December 2003. Because of a common access to this application, any errors are immediately detected and removed,
- Speed - in designing this application, we tried to minimize the HTML code and also made possible generating small pictures, making web loading as short as possible,
- Standards - our solutions are compatible with XHTML 1.0 and also with settings of most of the popular servers,
- Template system - we made our best effort to separate the logic and presentational layers from each other. The application outlook change, is really simple and it works through templates in which complicated PHP language is not used at all.
Enhancements:
- html/css optimization
- updated libraries
- bugfixes