Software Map

PHP Backup is a set of scripts that provides a framework for making backups using the PHP language.
Out of the box, it supports two kinds of backups: FTP using wget and MySQL using mysqldump.

Samba share backup tool automates the process of
mounting a samba share, downloading predetermined
files, creating a tar archive, and compressing it.
The main use of this script is to backup important
files from Windows machines.

um zu sync is a daemon to backup and synchronize
files. It utilises the inotify Linux kernel option
so that files are synchronised as soon as they are
modified.

Netcast is a tool for single-source, multiple-
destination, synchronous data transmission, using
multicasting udp stream for data and tcp
connections for synchronization and control data.

FauBackup uses a filesystem on a hard drive for
incremental and full backups. All backups can
easily be accessed by standard filesystem tools.
Later backups to the same filesystem will
automatically be incremental, as unchanged files
are only hard-linked with the existing version of
the file.

snapshot is a set of Perl scripts for creating, accessing, and
managing a repository of directory snapshots. Multiple snapshots of a directory can exist in a repository representing the state of that directory at different times. A snapshot repository can be local or remote, with remote servers accessed using SSH.

NetBackup makes an incremental tar backup,
compresses it with b2zip, and symmetric encrypts
it using gpg. The changed backup data is then
transfered to an ftp server. This is useful for
people who have too much Web space, and too few
streamers.

bakonf is a tool for making backups of configuration files on GNU/Linux or Unix-like systems. It uses various methods to reduce the size of the backups it creates, and is designed to be useful for unattended remote servers.

Magic Settings Wizard is designed to quickly and
easily restore or backup your favorite
applications settings through an FTP location used
as a storage medium.

Autodl2 is a simple to manage and extensible file
transfer system that can be configured simply
using a configuration file. The system is designed
to be lightweight and handle multiple file
transfer protocols. Currently only SFTP is
supported, though other systems can be added via a
plugin system.

The GNotary client is a multi-platform GUI client that allows you to select files via drag and drop from any file manager, create the secure hash sums for each file, and submit the hash list to a list of digital notary servers. Optionally, all selected files can be backed up into a zip archive. It is written in Python and requires the wxPython toolkit.

LnxZip is a GNOME frontend to common archive utilities under Linux/Unix. The goal is to provide the end user with a quality tool the user requires to either work with compressed files or create RPMs.

Backup adds instant version control to any file on
a Unix system. It 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
systems as a method of archiving configuration
files that change semi-frequently, but do not
necessarily warrant their own version control
mechanism or repository.

log2rotate is designed for rotating backups with an optimal balance between retention and space usage. Instead of rotating backups using some fixed period such as daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly, it rotates backups using exponentially-growing periods. The exponential periods are based on the base 2 logarithm or squaring, depending on how you look at it.

Archive sort is a script that sorts directories
into manageable 4.4GB directories for the purpose
of archiving onto DVDs. It is useful if you have
several tens or hundreds of GBs of data to
archive. It can also be configured to sort into
700MB directories for archiving onto CDs.