Amanda is a client/server application for making remote backups. While originating from a UNIX environment, it also supports backups of windows machines (via the smbclient utility). Client software for other machines is planned. See the Amanda homepage for details.The Amanda CDRW-Taper is a drop-in replacement for the taper component of the Amanda backup system. CDRW-Taper makes it possible to dump backups to CD-RW, DVD+RW or DVD-RW instead of tape.

Bastrama is a command-line tool to manage backup files that are stored on random access memory (e.g. hard drives).It implements an infinite grandfather-father-son strategy by deleting a defined subset of the backup files, therefore saving storage space while still keeping some of the older backups in case something went wrong (and needs to be restored from) a long time ago.

DIBS is a backup system that protects your data by giving your files to peers (and in return, you store their files) so that if a catastrophe strikes your area, you can recover data from surviving peers.This solves the problem of mirroring your data by adding more disks to your own computer only ot have a fire, flood, power surge, etc. wiping out your local data center.Note that DIBS is a backup system, *not* a file sharing system like Napster, Gnutella, Kazaa, etc. In fact, DIBS encrypts all data transmissions so that the peers you trade files with can not access your data.

Dump è una semplice ma anche potente utility per il backup in Linux. Dump esamina i file in un filesystem, e determina quali sono i componenti a rischio stratificando il backup dei files in base alla sua importanza, da cima in fondo. Consente il backup incrementale e può essere controllato attraverso PServer. Come tanti altri programmi per Linux è un progetto SourceForge.net Repository CVS.

FileBunker is a file backup application which uses one or more GMail accounts as its backup repository.Because each GMail account supplies 1000 megabytes of storage, it serves as an excellent facility for this purpose. Files are compressed and encrypted for security and efficiency, and can be restored on demand.

The CloneIt system was created to copy and essentially clone harddisks of identical PCs through a network. This is a common task when installing server racks or farms or update a computer-lab setup where one deals with identical machines. The system software consists of a Linux boot floppy and a ramdisk floppy with minimal system utilities that can perform the task of copying the complete content of disk devices through a network.

Dedicated or shared backup environmentOne design decision is whether to make your backup environment dedicated or shared.Dedicated SANs are secure but expensive. Shared environments cost less, but requiremore work to make them secure. A SAN installation with a database may require theperformance of a RAID 1 array. An installation backing up a basic file structure maysatisfy its needs with RAID 5 or NAS.

Il giorno 9 giugno presso la sede del Linux Certification Institute a Firenze, in Via Jacopo Nardi 71 si terrà il workshop di 8 ore sulle strategie di backup e Point in Time Recovery di PostgreSQL.

KBackup è un programma che consente di eseguire il backup di qualunque file o directory, in cui si utilizza facilmente la struttura di directory per selezionare i files del  backup. Il programma è stato progettato per essere molto semplice e il suo utilizzo in modo che possa essere utilizzato da parte di non esperti di computer. Il formato di archiviazione è il ben noto formato TAR, per cui i dati sono ancora memorizzati in formato compresso (bzip2 o gzip). Il backup può essere inserito in una directory locale (dispositivo montato, ecc), ma anche su un URL remoto (grazie a KIO di KDE). Oktre al  tedesco, francese, slovacco, portoghese, svedese e russo  prevista anche la traduzione per l'a lingua italiana.

This document describes how to set up and configure rsyncbackup on Debian Etch. Rsyncbackup is a Perl script that cooperates with rsync. It is easy to configure and able to create scheduled backups (partial and incremental backups).