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You may have read the story about a man deleting his entire company with one mistaken piece of code: accidentally misusing rm -rf in Ansible. It was a fairly obvious hoax designed to be a viral marketing effort. It achieved that goal as scores of media sources carried the story. But at least it will have alerted readers to the importance of making sure their data is safe. But remember, human error is not the only source of data loss. Other ways of losing data include mechanical damage to RAID or disks, file system corruption, theft, fire, as well as viruses and malware.
Backup software is used to
perform a complete back up of a file, data, database, system or server.
It allows users to make a duplicate of everything contained on the
original source. This type of software is also used to perform a
recovery of the data or system in the event of a disaster.
Making file backups is an essential activity for all users as it is the way to prevent permanent data loss. So it is important to learn about the best backup tools. Yet many users do not take adequate steps to protect their data. Whether a computer is being used in a corporate environment, or for private use, the machine's hard disk may fail without any warning signs. Alternatively, some data loss occurs as a result of human error. Without regular backups being made, data will inevitably be lost even if the services of a specialist recovery organisation are used.
While it has always been possible to use command line tools to backup files in Linux, this can be a daunting task for beginners and end-users. This article explores how making regular backups can be a painless task. I explore backup software which backs up the Right Way, software with intuitive graphical interfaces, applications that backup systems with snapshots, but not forgetting the powerful command-line tools that exist. I also cover specialist backup tools.
We previously published a fairly comprehensive backup article in 2008. Given the length of time that has elapsed, we thought it best to update and expand that article.
To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we will look at 34 outstanding open source backup tools that you can use on Linux servers or systems. There will be something of interest for anyone who attaches any importance to their hard work.
You may have read the story about a man deleting his entire company with one mistaken piece of code: accidentally misusing rm -rf in Ansible. It was a fairly obvious hoax designed to be a viral marketing effort. It achieved that goal as scores of media sources carried the story. But at least it will have alerted readers to the importance of making sure their data is safe. But remember, human error is not the only source of data loss. Other ways of losing data include mechanical damage to RAID or disks, file system corruption, theft, fire, as well as viruses and malware.
Backup software is used to
perform a complete back up of a file, data, database, system or server.
It allows users to make a duplicate of everything contained on the
original source. This type of software is also used to perform a
recovery of the data or system in the event of a disaster.Making file backups is an essential activity for all users as it is the way to prevent permanent data loss. So it is important to learn about the best backup tools. Yet many users do not take adequate steps to protect their data. Whether a computer is being used in a corporate environment, or for private use, the machine's hard disk may fail without any warning signs. Alternatively, some data loss occurs as a result of human error. Without regular backups being made, data will inevitably be lost even if the services of a specialist recovery organisation are used.
While it has always been possible to use command line tools to backup files in Linux, this can be a daunting task for beginners and end-users. This article explores how making regular backups can be a painless task. I explore backup software which backs up the Right Way, software with intuitive graphical interfaces, applications that backup systems with snapshots, but not forgetting the powerful command-line tools that exist. I also cover specialist backup tools.
We previously published a fairly comprehensive backup article in 2008. Given the length of time that has elapsed, we thought it best to update and expand that article.
To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we will look at 34 outstanding open source backup tools that you can use on Linux servers or systems. There will be something of interest for anyone who attaches any importance to their hard work.
| Backup Tool (Graphical User Interface) | |
| BackupPC | High-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up PCs |
| Bacula | Network backup, recovery and verification |
| Déjà Dup | Hides the complexity of doing backups the Right Way |
| Bareos | Backup Archiving Recovery Open Sourced |
| UrBackup | Easy to setup open source client/server backup system |
| Areca Backup | File backup software |
| fwbackups | Feature-rich backup software |
| Simple Backup Solution | Set of backend backup daemon and GUI frontends |
| Backup Tool (Command-line) | |
| Duplicity | Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup |
| AMANDA | Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver |
| Cedar Backup | Local and remote backups to CD or DVD media |
| afbackup | Client-Server Backup System (GUI is also available) |
| Dump / restore | Dump and restore utilities for ext2/ext3 filesystems |
| tar | Tar archiving utility |
| BURP | Uses librsync to save network traffic and space |
| Snapshot backups | |
| Back in Time | Equivalent of OS X's Time Machine |
| FlyBack | Simple backup tool taking inspiration from FlyBack and TimeVault |
| TimeShift | Takes regular incremental snapshots of the filesystem |
| Synchronisation | |
| rsnapshot | Local and remote filesystem snapshot utility |
| rsync | Fast remote file copy program |
| Disaster Recovery / Disk Cloning | |
| Redo Backup | So simple and user-friendly that anyone can use it |
| Clonezilla | Offers similar functionality to Symantec Ghost |
| Mondo Rescue | A powerful disaster recovery suite |
| Partclone | Provides utilities to save and restore used blocks on a partition |
| PartImage | Backup partitions into a compressed image file |
| PING | Also offers similar functionality to Symantec Ghost |
| FOG | Cloning / imaging solution / rescue suite |
| Specialist Deduplicating Tools | |
| Borg | Superb fork of Attic |
| ZBackup | Versatile globally-deduplicating backup tool |
| Attic | Encrypted, authenticated and compressed backup |
| bup | Backup a system based on the git packfile format |
| Obnam | Easy to use, secure Python based backup program |
| Specialist | |
| Zmanda | Perl-based utility to automate backup and recovery of MySQL databases |
| XtraBackup | Backup tool for InnoDB and XtraDB databases |
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