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| afbackup | 3.3.7pl6 | GPL | Afbackup is a client-server backup system | Client-Server Backup System This is a client-server backup system offering several workstations a centralized backup to a special backup server. Backing up only one computer is easily possible, too. Any streaming device can be used for writing the data to it, usually this will be a tape device. Writing backups is normally done sequentially: The next writing to tape goes to the end of the previous write no matter where you have restored from in the meantime. This package is for server or client with remote-start. Features: - Authentication of the client is performed before it can take over control - Access restriction for the streamer device -> security - Client-side per-file compression -> reliability - Data stream is written to tape in pieces -> fast finding of files - Tape position logging for each file - Tape capacity is fully used - Full / incremental backups - Raw partitions can be backuped - Client and Server buffering for maximal throughput is done - DES authentication support Documentation: http://afbackup-doc.sourceforge.net/html/ |
| afbackup-client | 3.3.7pl6 | GPL | AF's backup system client | Client-Server Backup System (Client side) This is a client-server backup system offering several workstations a centralized backup to a special backup server. Backing up only one computer is easily possible, too. Any streaming device can be used for writing the data to it, usually this will be a tape device. Writing backups is normally done sequentially: The next writing to tape goes to the end of the previous write no matter where you have restored from in the meantime. This is only the client, you need to have a server running on either this or another host. Features: - Authentication of the client is performed before it can take over control - Access restriction for the streamer device -> security - Client-side per-file compression -> reliability - Data stream is written to tape in pieces -> fast finding of files - Tape position logging for each file - Tape capacity is fully used - Full / incremental backups - Raw partitions can be backuped - Client and Server buffering for maximal throughput is done - DES authentication support Documentation: http://afbackup-doc.sourceforge.net/html/ |
| afio | 2.5 | LGPL | Archiver program which writes cpio-format archives | Afio makes cpio-format archives. It deals somewhat gracefully with input data corruption, supports multi-volume archives during interactive operation, and can make compressed archives that are much safer than compressed tar or cpio archives. Afio is best used as an `archive engine' in a backup script. |
| amanda-client | 2.4.4 | BSD | The client component of the AMANDA tape backup system. | The Amanda-client package should be installed on any machine that will be backed up by AMANDA (including the server if it also needs to be backed up). You will also need to install the amanda package to each AMANDA client. |
| amanda-server | 2.4.4 | BSD | The server side of the AMANDA tape backup system. | The amanda-server package should be installed on the AMANDA server, the machine attached to the device (such as a tape drive) where backups will be written. You will also need to install the amanda package to the AMANDA server. And, if the server is also to be backed up, the server also needs to have the amanda-client package installed. |
| backuponcd | 0.9.1 | GPL | Multi-CD backup shell scripts | BackupOnCd is a set of shell scripts which make multi-volume backups on CD-RW possible. It also makes the backup faster using cdrecord in a parallel subshell and minimizes the amount of temporary needed disk space. Currently supported: tar and afio. Be sure to modify /etc/backuponcd/global.rc to suit your system! |
| bacula-common | 1.32f | GPL | Common files for bacula package | Bacula - It comes by night and sucks the vital essence from your computers. Bacula is a set of computer programs that permit you (or the system administrator) to manage backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of computers of different kinds. In technical terms, it is a network client/server based backup program. Bacula is relatively easy to use and efficient, while offering many advanced storage management features that make it easy to find and recover lost or damaged files. |
| bacula-console | 1.32f | GPL | Bacula Console | Bacula - It comes by night and sucks the vital essence from your computers. Bacula Console is the program that allows the administrator or user to communicate with the Bacula Director. This is the text only console interface. |
| bacula-console-gnome | 1.32f | GPL | Bacula Gnome Console | Bacula - It comes by night and sucks the vital essence from your computers. Bacula Console is the program that allows the administrator or user to communicate with the Bacula Director. This is the GNOME GUI interface. |
| bacula-dir | 1.32f | GPL | Bacula Director and Catalog services | Bacula - It comes by night and sucks the vital essence from your computers. Bacula Director is the program that supervises all the backup, restore, verify and archive operations. The system administrator uses the Bacula Director to schedule backups and to recover files. Catalog services are comprised of the software programs responsible for maintaining the file indexes and volume databases for all files backed up. The Catalog services permit the System Administrator or user to quickly locate and restore any desired file, since it maintains a record of all Volumes used, all Jobs run, and all Files saved. This build requires sqlite to be installed separately as the catalog database. |
| bacula-fd | 1.32f | GPL | Bacula File services (Client) | Bacula - It comes by night and sucks the vital essence from your computers. Bacula File services (or Client program) is the software program that is installed on the machine to be backed up. It is specific to the operating system on which it runs and is responsible for providing the file attributes and data when requested by the Director. The File services are also responsible for the file system dependent part of restoring the file attributes and data during a recovery operation. This program runs as a daemon on the machine to be backed up, and in some of the documentation, the File daemon is referred to as the Client (for example in Bacula configuration file). |
| bacula-sd | 1.32f | GPL | Bacula Storage services | Bacula - It comes by night and sucks the vital essence from your computers. Bacula Storage services consist of the software programs that perform the storage and recovery of the file attributes and data to the physical backup media or volumes. In other words, the Storage daemon is responsible for reading and writing your tapes (or other storage media, e.g. files). The Storage services runs as a daemon on the machine that has the backup device (usually a tape drive). |
| buffer | 1.19 | GPL | General purpose buffer program | This is a program designed to speed up writing tapes on remote tape drives. After startup it splits itself into two processes. The first process reads (and reblocks) from stdin into a shared memory buffer. The second writes from the shared memory buffer to stdout. Doing it this way means that the writing side effectly sits in a tight write loop and doesn't have to wait for input. Similarly for the input side. It is this waiting that slows down other reblocking processes, like dd. |
| cpio | 2.5 | GPL | A GNU archiving program. | GNU cpio copies files into or out of a cpio or tar archive. Archives are files which contain a collection of other files plus information about them, such as their file name, owner, timestamps, and access permissions. The archive can be another file on the disk, a magnetic tape, or a pipe. GNU cpio supports the following archive formats: binary, old ASCII, new ASCII, crc, HPUX binary, HPUX old ASCII, old tar and POSIX.1 tar. By default, cpio creates binary format archives, so that they are compatible with older cpio programs. When it is extracting files from archives, cpio automatically recognizes which kind of archive it is reading and can read archives created on machines with a different byte-order. Install cpio if you need a program to manage file archives. |
| diskimg | 1.1.1 | GPL | A tools to make disks/partitions image | DiskImg is a small command-line utility that dumps the contents of a drive or partition to standard out. Because it is based on large file support, it is able to skip over read errors and log them to a log file. It can start reading at an offset and writes its progress to stderr. |
| dump | 0.4b34 | BSD | Programs for backing up and restoring filesystems | The dump package contains both dump and restore. Dump examines files in a filesystem, determines which ones need to be backed up, and copies those files to a specified disk, tape or other storage medium. The restore command performs the inverse function of dump; it can restore a full backup of a filesystem. Subsequent incremental backups can then be layered on top of the full backup. Single files and directory subtrees may also be restored from full or partial backups. |
| ibackup | 2.27 | GPL | Automated backups (even remote) of machine configurations | This software simplifies the task of backing up the system configuration files (those under /etc) for UNIX systems (Solaris, *BSD, Linux). You can run the program from any directory and it will by default save the (maybe compressed) tarball to /root. . It is possible to encrypt the tarball, to upload the tarball to some other host and run the backup automated in a cronjob. |
| libamanda0 | 2.4.4 | BSD | Libraries and documentation of the AMANDA tape backup system. | 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 GNU tar facilities and can back up a large number of workstations running multiple versions of Unix. Newer versions of AMANDA (including this version) can use SAMBA to back up Microsoft(TM) Windows95/NT hosts. The amanda package contains the core AMANDA programs and will need to be installed on both AMANDA clients and AMANDA servers. Note that you will have to install the amanda-client |
| mondo | 1.62 | GPL | Create a rescue/restore CD. | Produce a program which any RedHat/Mandrake user can utilize to create a rescue/restore CD (or CDs, if their installation is >2Gb approx.). |
| mtf | 0.2.1 | GPL | A Linux reader for the Microsoft Tape Format used by NT Backup. | A bare-bones reader for Microsoft Tape Format tapes. This program is based on Microsoft Tape Format Specification Version 1.00a, |
| mt-st | 0.7 | BSD | Programs to control tape device operations | The mt-st package contains the mt and st tape drive management programs. Mt (for magnetic tape drives) and st (for SCSI tape devices) can control rewinding, ejecting, skipping files and blocks and more. This package can help you manage tape drives. |
| mtx | 1.2.18 | GPL | Controls the robotic mechanism in DDS Tape drive autoloaders. | The MTX program controls the robotic mechanism in autoloaders and tape libraries such as the HP SureStore DAT 40x6, Exabyte EZ-17, and Exabyte 220. This program is also reported to work with a variety of other tape libraries and autochangers from ADIC, Tandberg/Overland, Breece Hill, HP, and Seagate. If you have a backup tape device capable of handling more than one tape at a time, you should install MTX. |
| partimage | 0.6.2 | GPL | Partition Image | - Partition Image is a Linux/UNIX partition imaging utility: it saves partitions in the Ext2FS (the linux standard), ReiserFS (a new journalized and powerful file system), NTFS (Windows NT File System) or FAT16/32 (DOS & Windows file systems), file system formats to an image file. Only used blocks are copied. The image file can be compressed in the GZIP/BZIP2 formats to save disk space, and splitted into multiple files to be copied on amovibles floppies (ZIP for example), or burned on a CD-R ... - This allows to save a full Linux/Windows system, with an only operation. When problems (viruses, crash, error, ...), you just have to restore, and after several minutes, all your system is restored (boot, files, ...), and fully working. - This is very useful when installing the same software on many machines: just install one of them, create an image, and just restore the image on all other machines. Then, after the first one, each installation is automatically made, and only require a few minutes. |
| pax | 3.0 | GPL | POSIX File System Archiver | 'pax' is the POSIX standard archive tool. It supports the two most common forms of standard Unix archive (backup) files - CPIO and TAR. |
| reoback | 1.0.3 | GPL | A simple backup solution. | Pronounced as "Ray-o-back", REOBack is a simple backup solution designed for Linux Users AND System Administrators. It is designed to be simple to set-up and and easy to use. Great as a quick solution for those who procrastinate about backups. |
| rmt | 0.4b34 | BSD | Provides certain programs with access to remote tape devices. | The rmt utility provides remote access to tape devices for programs like dump (a filesystem backup program), restore (a program for restoring files from a backup) and tar (an archiving program). |
| sharutils | 4.2.1 | GPL | The GNU shar utilities for packaging and unpackaging shell archives. | The sharutils package contains the GNU shar utilities, a set of tools for encoding and decoding packages of files (in binary or text format) in a special plain text format called shell archives (shar). This format can be sent through email (which can be problematic for regular binary files). The shar utility supports a wide range of capabilities (compressing, uuencoding, splitting long files for multi-part mailings, providing checksums), which make it very flexible at creating shar files. After the files have been sent, the unshar tool scans mail messages looking for shar files. Unshar automatically strips off mail headers and introductory text and then unpacks the shar files. Install sharutils if you send binary files through email very often. |
| taper | 7.0 | GPL | A menu-driven file backup system. | Taper is a backup and restoration program with a friendly user interface. Files may be backed up to a tape drive or to a hard disk. The interface for selecting files to be backed up/restored is very similar to the Midnight Commander interface, and allows easy traversal of directories. Taper supports recursive selection of directories. Taper also supports backing up SCSI, ftape, zftape and removable drives. By default, taper is set for incremental backups and automatic most recent restore. Install the taper package if you need a user friendly file backup and restoration program. |
| tar | 1.13.25 | GPL | A GNU file archiving program. | The GNU tar program saves many files together into one archive and can restore individual files (or all of the files) from the archive. Tar can also be used to add supplemental files to an archive and to update or list files in the archive. Tar includes multivolume support, automatic archive compression/ decompression, the ability to perform remote archives and the ability to perform incremental and full backups. If you want to use Tar for remote backups, you'll also need to install the rmt package. You should install the tar package, because you'll find its compression and decompression utilities essential for working with files. |
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