34 Best Free Linux Backup Software

Posted by sde on Apr 24, 2016 10:06 AM EDT
LinuxLinks.com; By Steve Emms
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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.

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.

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