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• Amanda, The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver - A backup system that allows a single master backup server to be set up which backs up multiple hosts to a single large capacity tape drive.
• Areca Backup - A cross-platform file backup tool. Some of the features include data compression & encryption, incremental backup, file history explorer, archives merges / deletion, and a transaction mechanism which guarantees backup integrity.
• BackupPC: Open Source Backup to disk - An enterprise-grade system for backing up Linux PCs and laptops to a server's disk.
• Bacula, the Network Backup Tool for Linux, Unix, and Windows - A cross-platform network-based backup program. Latest stable release is 3.0.1, 2009-04-30. Also available in French and German.
• Blu-ray Disc/ DVD+RW/+R/ -R[W] for Linux - Primarily deals with computer storage applications. Latest release is 7.1, 2008-03-04. Website also available in Chinese.
• Box Backup - An open source, completely automatic on-line backup system for Linux and UNIX. Backups are encrypted, and changed files uploaded using an rsync-like changes-only algorithm.
• Cedar Backup - A Python package that supports backups of files on local and remote hosts to CD-R or CD-RW media over a secure network connection.
• DAR - Disk ARchive - An archiving tool and a replacement for tar with features such as: archive merging, compression, directory tree snapshots, differential backup,filters, and slices.
• Doom9.net - The Definitive DVD Backup Resource - A goldmine of information about DVD backups (ripping); contains news, guides, FAQs, downloads, glossary of terms, and useful links; a multilingual site.
• Dump/restore utilities - Dump/restore utilities for the ext2 file system.
• Duplicity - An encrypted, bandwidth-efficient backup using the rsync algorithm.
• K9Copy - A KDE DVD backup tool.
• Linux backup and disaster recovery by Storix Software - N.B. Personal edition available free; enterprise options are not free.
• Make CD-ROM Recovery (mkCDrec) - 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. Supports 2.2.x, 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernels. Latest release is 0.9.9, 2008-09-05.
• Mondo Rescue - Disaster recovery software for Linux; does backups to tape, CD-R, CD-RW, NFS or hard disk partition.
• MultiCD - A Linux backup application which provides an easy way to backup a large number of files to multiple CDs or DVDs. Latest release is 1.7.5, 2005-07-02.
• Openfiler - Friendly enterprise storage management platform - A browser-based network storage management utility.
• Parted Magic - A 40 MB live CD/USB/PXE (Preboot Execution Environment) distribution primarily designed for partitioning hard drives. It also can be used for system rescue, and includes an extensive collection of filesystem tools.
• RIP Linux Rescue System ( Rescue is Possible) - A CD or USB boot/rescue/backup/maintenance system.
• RPM of Group Archiving/Backup - Listing of archiving and backup RPMs.
• Rdiff-backup: Main - Software to back up one disk to another; creates incremental backups.
• Rdup - This is a simple utility inspired by rsync and the Plan9 way of doing backups. It does not backup anything; it only prints a list of the names of files that have changed since the last backup. It also handles files that are removed, allowing for correct incremental backups. Latest release is 1.0.2, 2009-08-14.
• Restore CD/DVD HOWTO - A detailed cookbook which shows how to make an image of any partition for a backup and how to create an automated Linux restore CD/DVD ISO image or burn directly to a CD/DVD. (2005)
• Rsync - A software backup application for Linux and UNIX systems which synchronizes files and directories from one location to another while minimizing data transfer using delta encoding (a way of storing or transmitting data in the form of differences between sequential data rather than complete files) when appropriate.
• SafeKeep - A centralized, command-line backup application that combines the best features of a mirror and an incremental backup.
• Simple Linux Backup Software - An easy-to-use program for backing up a desktop Linux system. It has a friendly user interface. Also available in French and Turkish.
• SystemRescueCd - This is the ultimate, cross-platform system rescue power tool based on the Gentoo distribution, and comes with tons of features for every eventuality. Also available in French and Spanish.
• Taper - A backup system for Linux; backups can be done for any device Linux supports, including tape drives, filesystems, floppy drives, removable devices.
• The dvdbackup Homepage - A tool to rip DVDs from the command line. Internationalization is excellent with many translations available, including French, Galician, Italian, Russian, and Spanish.
• The uCON64 Project - backup tool for video game media - A cross-platform tool to backup all kinds of video games (cartridges and CDs).
• Thoggen - DVD Backup/Ripping With Style - A DVD backup utility (DVD ripper) for Linux, based on GStreamer and Gtk+.
• Welcome to Dirvish - A fast, disk-based, rotating network backup system. Latest stable release is 1.2.1, 2008-03-25.
• rsnapshot - A filesystem snapshot utility (based on rsync) for making backups of local and remote systems.

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