10 Great Linux Backup Tools

4: Mondorescue
Mondorescue is one of those tools you have around for disaster recovery because one of its strengths is backing up an entire installation.

5: Simple Backup Solution
Simple Backup Solution is primarily targeted at desktop backup. It can back up files and directories and allows regular expressions to be used for exclusion purposes.

6: Amanda
Amanda allows an administrator to set up a single backup server and back up multiple hosts to it. It’s robust, reliable, and flexible. Amanda uses native Linux dump and/or tar to facilitate the backup process.

7: Arkeia
Arkeia is one of the big boys in the backup industry. If you are looking for enterprise-level backup-restore solutions (and even replication server solutions) and you don’t mind paying a premium, Arkeia is your tool.

8: Back In Time
Back In Time allows you to take snapshots of predefined directories and can do so on a schedule. This tool has an outstanding interface and integrates well with GNOME and KDE.

9: Box Backup
Box Backup is unique in that not only is it fully automated but it can use encryption to secure your backups. Box Backup uses both a client daemon and server daemon, as well as a restore utility.

10: Kbackup
Kbackup is a simple backup utility that backs up locally to any media (hard drive or mounted device) that can be written to. It’s designed to be a backup device that ANY user can take advantage of.

For a fuller review of these packages, plus links to their home pages and a PDF version of the full article go to 10 outstanding Linux backup utilities | 10 Things | TechRepublic.com