Software Map

cdbkup performs full or incremental backups of local
or remote filesystems onto CD-R(W)s. Results are
stored as tarballs on single or multi-session ISO
CDs. It works either interactively for multi-CD
backups, or non-interactively for single-CD backups.

zfec is a fast, portable, and programmable
implementation of erasure coding. It includes a C
library, a Python library, and a command-line
tool. Erasure coding is also known as "forward
error correction", which is the generation of
redundant blocks of information such that if some
blocks are lost then the original data can be
recovered from the remaining blocks. The RAID-5
algorithm is an erasure code, but while RAID-5 can
recover from the loss of any one element, zfec can
be parameterized to choose in advance the number
of elements whose loss it can tolerate.

AntFlow builds upon Apache Ant to provide a new
approach to simplifying system automation that
uses pipelines of hot folders chained together to
perform a given task. Using XML, it associates an
automated task such as data transfer, encryption,
or XML processing with a directory on the local
system. Whenever a file is copied or written into
the hot folder, the associated task is executed
and the file is moved to the next hot folder in
the pipeline for further processing.

PostScript::CDCover generates a Postscript program that prints a CD cover and backlabel, with contents displayed as a tree of directories and files. The module ships with a stand-alone, ready-to-use script, pscdcover, that takes the directory tree of a CD-ROM as input and generates a cover from it.
The output can be directly fed to a PostScript
printer, but it is designed to be easily editable
(should one wish to remove unwanted directory
entries, for example).

Webacula is a Web interface for the Bacula backup system.

lzop is a file compressor similar to gzip. Its main advantages over gzip are much higher compression and decompression speed at the cost of some compression ratio. lzop uses the LZO library for compression services.

Box Backup is an online backup system for Unix.
Backups are encrypted, and changed files uploaded
using an rsync-like changes-only algorithm.

Archive is a fully drag-and-drop multi-format archiver. Drag a directory onto it to create an archive. Drag an archive onto it to extract to a directory. It can also compress and decompress streams (for example, you could drag a .gz file onto Archive and from Archive into your text editor).

GNU cpio copies files into or out of a cpio or tar archive. 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. The tar format is provided for compatability with the tar program. By default, cpio creates binary format archives, for compatibility with older cpio programs. When extracting from archives, cpio automatically recognizes which kind of archive it is reading and can read archives created on machines with a different byte-order.

bksh is a simple program designed to be used as a
shell by SSH. All it does it to copy its input to
a given backup file. Its goal is to allow
administrators to create backup-only accounts.

Tapeback is command line software for backing up various
parts of a Linux system. It supports appending multiple
backups to a single tape as well as having a backup span
multiple tapes. Its backups are fully self-contained; no
"database" is needed to restore a backup. Restore point
redirection is also easily accomplished without complex
editing of config files or complex commands to enter at the
command line. The package also includes a small kernel
patch to facilitate real-time detection of "drive ready" status.
This patch allows tapeback to automatically detect when a
tape is switched in the drive (when end of tape is hit during
backup/restore).

Manent is an algorithmically strong backup and
archival program. It features efficient backup to
anything that looks like storage. Currently it
supports plain filesystems ("directories"), FTP,
and SFTP. Planned are Amazon S3, optical disks,
and email (SMTP and IMAP). It can work (making
progress towards finishing a backup) over a slow
and unreliable network. It can offer online
access to the contents of the backup. Backed up
storage is completely encrypted. Backup is
incremental, including changed parts of large
files. Moved, renamed, and duplicate files will
not require additional storage. Several computers
can use the same storage for backup, automatically
sharing data. Both very large and very small files
are supported efficiently. Manent does not rely on
timestamps of the remote system to detect changes.

Vbackup is a modular backup utility that can be used to perform full or incremental system backups. It consists of a set of scripts that can be used to create backups using tar and xfsdump. It can also make backups of PostgreSQL, MySQL, and LDAP databases, keep a copy of the boot record, the partition table, or the LVM configuration, encrypt archives using x509 certificates, and back up the Debian package list and the RPM database. It can store the backups in a local or remote directory using either NFS or SCP. It is modular, and can be extended to perform other functions as well.