Backup Applications for Linux
August 22, 2009 by Clair Ching
Filed under applications
Backups are essential for everyone, whether it’s for our personal needs or our company’s. Backups are what we need especially when we’re migrating information. Especially when we’re going to migrate everything in a whole new system or environment. I usually just backup everything manually in DVDs every so often. I guess everyone has specific ways of making their own backups but ZDNet has shared a list of ten backup applications for Linux.
Some of the applications that caught my eye:
This one has a very interesting name. It’s as if your backups will bring you back to the time you made them. Descriptive and catchy, this tool has an easy to use interface. One panel has the snapshots of your backups, another has the view of your directory and your current location. You could also schedule your backups. GNOME and KDE are supported by this application.
This is an application that can be run only by root. It has a user interface for you to easily select the options. You could set a periodic backup or manual backups. You could set which directories are included and/or excluded. It’s really up to you. You could even do that to remote directories. This is nifty that way.
fwbackups looks easy to use as well with its graphical user interface. You could even drag and drop files if you want to. This tool has additional preferences that let you determine how it will behave on your system: should it start upon you logging in the system or whether you should see it on the system tray. Also, if you want to know what’s going on with it, there’s always the log viewer.
I might be installing Back in Time because it really looks easy to use. Have you tried any of these? Which one will you recommend?
I’ve found BackupPC extremely reliable, robust, and intuitive to configure for my straightforward backup needs at home and at work. Backing up Windows works well if you avoid ssh+rsync.