5 Free Backup Tools for Linux
Featuring some of the free and useful Linux tools you can use to make backup on your machine. Some of these are server based while others can be installed on your PC. In either case you can easily make complete backup on a daily or scheduled basis.
The Simple Linux Backup software is a free application for Linux that simplifies the task of backing up a Linux desktop system. It includes two applications:
The Simple Backup Configuration Program (SBCP): This wizard asks you a few simple questions about what to back up, where to back it up, etc. It records these answers in some configuration files and sets up automatic backups for you.
The backup script: This shell script actually performs the backups based on the options you set in SBCP. It has no user interface – it is meant to be run automatically by the Linux scheduler, cron, or manually from a command line.
Read the Installtion Instructions here
One of the simpler solutions for Linux. It’s an easy to use backup system for Linux which does its job by taking snapshots of a specified set of directories. Without requiring advanced knowledge of the Linux operating system you can set the time intervals at which snapshots of your file system are taken. The snapshots are stored efficiently by recording modifications and avoiding duplications.
Currently there are two GUI available: Gnome and KDE 4 (>= 4.1).
All you have to do is configure:
- Where to save snapshot
- What directories to backup
- When backup should be done (manual, every hour, every day, every week, every month)
The Unix Backup Tool (UBT) is a tool written in Tcl/Tk and using Expect to control the interactive commands like dump. It allows to define automatically from templates descriptions the files system list to backup, and with a nice interface to change the options and follow the backup progress.
It features
- A simple and nice graphic interface to configure and follow the backup.
- Create automatically the machines and file systems list to backup.
- Perform a full backup on tapes but also an incremental backup with no special human action.
- Allow to limit the file system list with restriction like backup all FS with /export/home prefix.
- Perform tape action.
- Detect unreachable machines and do not block the backup process.
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.
NasBack uses a simple Windows GUI and rsync to perform backups from client machines to a central server. It’ll do incremental backups, scheduling, compression, encryption, and the server offers useful per-client controls like limiting the number of versions to store and expiration dates. It also provides daily summaries via email.
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I use Simple Backup Suite to provide a system restore like backups but there isn’t any easy to use Linux software for backing up full disc images.
So for full backups I use Acronis True Image, I have to use the boot disc, which ironically runs a small version of linux, but it is the only way to get true backups of a Linux OS that doesn’t involve the command line.
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anonymous,
Thanks, I have tried CloneZilla, but it is not very intuitive and only seems to back up my full hard drive, rather than just the used data, and without any form of compression, i.e. my 100GB Linux HDD requires a 100GB backup, even though I have only used 50GB of the disk!
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