What are some nice backup tools in Linux?

gacanepa · July 30, 2015, 1:28pm

Hi everyone,

Just thought it would be nice if we could document all the backup methods that we use in our daily work.

I haven’t used anything other than tar and rsync combined with shell scripting. What do you guys use to make backups (what is your favorite tool) and why?

Buvanesh_Kumar · July 30, 2015, 1:34pm

Sbackup. A graphical desktop backup tool

gacanepa · July 30, 2015, 1:42pm

Thanks for your reply. I have written about backupninja and backuppc but haven’t used them much actually, and certainly not in a production environment.

John_Sanabria · August 3, 2015, 5:05pm

I like unison. It has incremental backups and good GUI.

jalal_hajigholamali · August 9, 2015, 9:21am

I do like “cpio” , “tar” and “rsync”
the above commands are open source and they are very simple and usefull

Paul_P · August 27, 2015, 3:30am

I am looking for a way to create an image of the contents of a flash drive containing a full installation (not a caper-rw file).
This backup could be done either in a Linux environment or windows. Any suggestions welcome.

gopalr007 · August 28, 2015, 1:40pm

According to me TAR is the Best in class backup tool in Linux