Best Backup Software for Linux

Deja Dup is an open source application that provides users with both backup and restore capabilities. It is a lightweight and universal backup tool that’s compatible with any Linux-based operating system. It is not a complex application. In fact, it...

Duplicity is an open source software that uses the rsync algorithm to backup directories and produce encrypted tar-format volumes. Duplicity is able to  upload the backups to a local or remote file server, and it also includes the rdiffdir...

CrucibleWDS is an open source and web-based software project, a managed computer imaging solution designed for cloning Linux, as well as Windows XP, Vista, 7, and 8 installations. It has a strong focus on schools and small businesses.Features at a...

AMANDA, the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver, is a backup system that allows the administrator of a LAN to set up a single master backup server to back up multiple hosts to a single large capacity tape drive.AMANDA uses native dump and/or...

restore CD/DVD allows you to create a CD or DVD that can be used to backup whole hard disk partitions from any OS and restore them without user interaction.restore CD/DVD can be used in a manner similar to vendor-provided rescue CDs included with new...

Phrealon is a bootable linux CD based on Slackware Linux 8.0 (now 9.0)designed to allow the easy imaging of multiple workstations.It utilizes the udpcast set of Linux tools to accomplish...

SBackup is an open source, free and simple graphical backup solution intended for desktop use. It can back up any subset of files and directories.This software is written within the Google Summer of Code 2005 event, for use in the Ubuntu Linux ...

Synbak is an open source wrapper for several existing backup applications, providing a powerful reporting system. The backups are made using rsync.The Synbak project was designed to unify several backup methods in a single application, while supplying a...

DarGUI is a graphical frontend for the DAR (Disk ARchiving) utility ( that aims to make it easier and quicker to perform common backup tasks using DAR. It uses the GTK+ library, which is installed on most Linux distributions, so usually the only...

Partclone is a free and open source command-line software implemented in C and designed from the offset as an alternative to the Partition Image (also known as partimage) program, but for GNU/Linux systems. This tool can be used by system administrators...