Best File Compression for Linux

patool includes various archive types that can be created, extracted, tested and listed. The advantage of patool is its simplicity in handling archive files without having to remember a myriad of programs and options.The archive format is determined...

Creates indexed pdf documents from text files. Designed to aid creating an electronic distribution method for legacy system reports, since many mainframe type print spools are plain text.Allows indexing, customizing page settings, font size, font face,...

As its name suggests, Lziprecover is an open source and totally free recovery tool for Lzip compressed files. It can also decompress .lz files.Lziprecover is crafted in such a way that it can recover badly damaged files, repair somewhat damaged files,...

pwbuilder is a powerful tool for creating software packages for Slackware Linux. pwbuilder aims to be the easiest tool in its category.However, pwbuilder provides an advanced API that allows you to make packages exactly in the way you...

KDiskRescue project is a KDE frontent to the gnu program ddrescue. It's written with korundum, the qt/kde ruby bindings. So it depends to korundum and ddrescue. It's still an alpha, so expect issues and report them if you can. Illustrations are alpha too....

JBDiff (Java Binary Diff) utility is a Java port of the C based bsdiff utility by Colin Percival.The file format is similar to, but currently not compatible with the bsdiff utility. This is because bsdiff uses bzip2 for compression which is not available...

glucopy-glurestore is a set of scripts for copying and restoring a fully functional GNU/Linux (or other Unix-like) system.The glucopy script will back up all system content (system and user files), while the glurestore script will partition and format an...

fmorgue is a Python tool for mirroring files permanently to a remote server. In contrast to rsync and friends, it identifies missing files on the server only based on modification time and size, which makes it suitable for archiving rotated log...

DirSync Pro is a directory synchronizer. It takes two arguments: the source directory and the destination directory.It recursively makes the two directories identical. DirSync Pro can be used to make an incremental copy of large data. For example, if your...

Pybackpack project is a user friendly file backup tool for Gnome. A graphical tool to make file backup simpler. Provides a user-friendly interface which allows you to back up your files easily to an archive, to a CD/DVD or to a remote location using...