A selection of open source backup tools
• Amanda – a backup tool based on the client-server model;
• Backupninja – lightweight, extensible meta backup system;
• BackupPC – high-performance system for backup to disk;
• Bareos – a fork of the Bacula backup tool;
• Barman – backup and recovery manager for disaster recovery of PostgreSQL servers;
• BorgBackup – a fork of the Attic deduplicating backup program written in Python;
• Burp – a program for backing up and restoring data over the network;
• DREBS – AWS EBS backup script that supports strategies;
• Dar – which stands for Disk ARchive, is a robust and feature-rich tar-style archiving and backup program;
• Duplicati – multiple backends, encryption, web-ui and backup tool for multiple OSes;
• Duplicity – bandwidth-efficient encrypted backup using the rsync algorithm;
• Elkarbackup – a backup solution based on RSnapshot with a simple web interface;
• rclone is a command line program for synchronizing files and directories with multiple cloud storage systems/providers;
• Rdiff-backup – simple remote incremental backup of all your files;
• Restic is a secure remote backup tool. Designed for simple, fast, reliable and efficient backup;
• Rsnapshot – a utility for creating snapshots of the file system;
• Shield – pluggable architecture for backup and recovery of database systems;
• Snebu – snapshot backup with global multi-client deduplication and transparent compression;
• UrBackup – another client-server backup system;
• ZBackup is an all-in-one backup tool with deduplication.
