The app-backup category contains tools for performing backups of data, including both full and incremental backups, as well as backups to other media (CD-R, Tape, etc.).
| amanda | The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver |
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| attic | Attic is a deduplicating backup program written in Python. |
| backintime | Backup system inspired by TimeVault and FlyBack |
| backup-manager | Backup Manager is a command line backup tool for GNU/Linux |
| backupninja | lightweight, extensible meta-backup system |
| backuppc | High-performance backups to a server's disk |
| bacula | Featureful client/server network backup suite |
| bareos | Featureful client/server network backup suite |
| borgbackup | Deduplicating backup program with compression and authenticated encryption |
| borgweb | Browser-based user interface for BorgBackup |
| btrbk | Tool for creating snapshots and remote backups of btrfs subvolumes |
| bup | A highly efficient backup system based on the git packfile format |
| burp | Network backup and restore client and server for Unix and Windows |
| buttersink | rsync-like utility for btrfs snapshots |
| cachedir | Tag/untag cache directories |
| ccollect | Pseudo incremental backup with different exclude lists using hardlinks and rsync |
| cdbackup | Allows streaming backup utilities to dump/restore from CD-R(W)s or DVD(+/-RW)s |
| cdbkup | performs full/incremental backups of local/remote filesystems onto CD-R(W)s |
| cpdup | A comprehensive filesystem mirroring program |
| dar | A full featured backup tool, aimed for disks |
| deja-dup | Simple backup tool using duplicity back-end |
| dirvish | Dirvish is a fast, disk based, rotating network backup system |
| duplicity | Secure backup system using gnupg to encrypt data |
| duply | A shell frontend for duplicity |
| flexbackup | Flexible backup script using perl |
| fsarchiver | Flexible filesystem archiver for backup and deployment tool |
| furball | A small perl script utilizing tar |
| genbackupdata | Generate test data for backup software testing. |
| hdup | Hdup is backup program using tar, find, gzip/bzip2, mcrypt and ssh |
| holland | Holland Core Plugins |
| holland-backup-example | Holland Example Plugin |
| holland-backup-pgdump | Holland pgdump Plugin |
| holland-backup-random | Holland Random Plugin |
| holland-backup-sqlite | Holland sqlite Plugin |
| holland-lib-common | Holland Core Library |
| holland-lib-lvm | Holland LVM Library |
| kfoldersync | Folder synchronization and backup tool based on KDE Frameworks |
| luckybackup | Powerful and flexible backup (and syncing) tool, using RSync and Qt |
| mirdir | Synchronize two directory trees in a fast way |
| mkstage4 | Bash Utility for Creating Stage 4 Tarballs |
| mylvmbackup | Tool for creating backups of MySQL server's data files using LVM snapshots |
| pdumpfs | A daily backup system similar to Plan9's dumpfs |
| rdedup | data deduplication with compression and public key encryption |
| rdiff-backup | Local/remote mirroring+incremental backup |
| rdumpfs | a rsync-based dump file system backup tool |
| rdup | Generate a file list suitable for full or incremental backups |
| rear | A setup-and-forget Linux bare metal disaster recovery solution |
| reoback | Reoback Backup Solution |
| restic | A backup program that is fast, efficient and secure |
| rsnapshot | A filesystem backup utility based on rsync |
| sarab | SaraB is a powerful and automated backup scheduling system based on DAR |
| simplebackup | Cross-platform backup program |
| snapper | Command-line program for btrfs and lvm snapshot management |
| spideroak-bin | Secure free online backup, storage, and sharing system |
| tarsnap | Online backups for the truly paranoid |
| tob | A general driver for making and maintaining backups |
| tsm | Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Backup/Archive (B/A) Client and API |
| untangle-https-backup | Back up Untangle configurations via the web admin UI |
| vzdump | A utility to make consistent snapshots of running OpenVZ containers |
| zbackup | A versatile deduplicating backup tool |