Top 5 Free Backup Tools for Linux

By Partho, Gaea News Network
Tuesday, May 26, 2009

backup1If you are over-optimist about your computer’s safety, let me tell you there are any number of hard drives failures occurring in and around you. Well, you might have no clue of a data-disaster when it hits your system. The only way to save your invaluable data is a back up tool. Now if you are the one who works on Linux system, you are lucky to have a number of free backup tools for your system. Most of these tools provide you complete backup either on a regular or scheduled basis. Some of these free application are server based where as there are others that can be installed in your Computer. I got across five cool free backup systems for Linux that I would like to share with you. Here’s a list of top 5 free Backup Tools for Linux.

Backup PC

backuppc
This is a advanced enterprise grade backup system for Linux, WinXX and MacOSX PCs and laptops to a server’s disk.

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Simple Linux Backup
simplebackup

This free application for Linux offers an easy solution to backing up a Linux desktop system. It consists of two applications -
The Simple Backup Configuration Program (SBCP) that allows automatic backups at the location specified by you and The backup script that performs the backup according to your specifications in SBCP.

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The Unix Backup
unixbackup

This is a tool written in Tcl/Tk that features a simple and nice graphic interface. It automaically defines from templates descriptions the files system list to backup.

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Back in Time

back-in-timeIt provides one of the simplest ways to backup your Linux system. Back in Time captures the snapshot of a specified set of directories.

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NasBackup

nasbackuppcThis free backup tool offers a simple Windows GUI and rsync to provide backups for client machines.

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Source: TechCityInc

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