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34 Best Free Linux Backup Software

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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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Comments (6)

kikinovak ·
http://www.microlinux.fr/microlinux/template/backup/

Heavily inspired by this great article:

http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/

I'm using this on all my servers, LAN and public.
skelband ·
I certainly recommend BackInTime. We use it at home and work and it's great.
dotmatrix ·
Of course rsync is the core of all of the backup solutions mentioned above.

rsync is awesome.

19 years young and still as good as ever.
penguinist ·
In a recent job with a fortune 500 company, I used rsync to keep 5 TB of project data in sync between locations on three continents (high latency connections). Even though the project was very active with hundreds of developers working into that 5TB space, we were still able to keep updates going on an hourly basis.

The company's Windows-centric IT organization hated that we had a solid Linux solution and they worked for six months to try to replace it with a proprietary system. After six months of study, their recommendation was that we should continue with Linux and rsync. There was no Windows-based replacement at any price that could come close.
dotmatrix ·
>There was no Windows-based replacement at any price that could come close.

Whenever I'm forced to help some relative or friend with a Windows question, I'm always shocked at the continued and obstinate lack of good easy to use tools like:

rsync, ssh, scp, vi, sed, gcc, as, ld, gdb

And reasonable file permissions...

And the lack of a 'real' database like my goto... postgresql.

I find it slightly disturbing that some of my very technical friends prefer Windows... I guess -- enter in WSL.

I think WSL should stand for:

Windows Second -to- Linux.

Seriously, when in Windows I feel hamstrung. It's truly painful.
jdixon ·
> And the lack of a 'real' database like my goto... postgresql.

Postgres is available for Windows. Why you'd want to use it there I don't know.

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