Top 5 Reasons You Need SpiderOak Now

"That family picture you love will be safe forever. Back up the files that are important to you. Whether it is personal or professional, photos, music, movies, or documents, you’ll be glad you did. Your peace of mind is our priority."

https://spideroak.com/blog/20120615075113-top-5-reasons-you-need-spideroak-now

Finding Archimedes in the Shadows

"And we see, throughout, hints of someone standing triumphant at the borders of the ancient world, peering at us through accumulated catastrophes and layers of destruction, and surviving — just like the hero of any good thriller. "

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/17/arts/secrets-of-archimedes-at-walters-in-baltimore-review.html

JBackback

"JBackpack is a personal backup program. It features incremental backups, network transparency and encryption."


http://www.nongnu.org/jbackpack/

Back In Time

"Back In Time is a simple backup tool for Linux inspired from “flyback project” and “TimeVault”. The backup is done by taking snapshots of a specified set of directories."

http://backintime.le-web.org/

Mirroring Is Not a Backup Solution

"Journalspace.com has fallen and can't get up. The post on their site describes how their entire database was overwritten through either some inconceivable OS or application bug, or more likely a malicious act. Regardless of how the data was lost, their undoing appears to have been that they treated drive mirroring as a backup and have now paid the ultimate price for not having point-in-time backups of the data that was their business."


http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F02%2F1546214

Cucku - Social backup

"Cucku backs up your data locally and then sends a secure copy to a trusted friend or family member of your choice. It’s easy, trustworthy, and free!"



http://www.cucku.com/

Very Long-Term Backup

"One side of the disk contains a graphic teaser. The design shows headlines in the eight major languages of the world today spiraling inward in ever-decreasing size till it becomes so small you have trouble reading it, yet the text goes on getting smaller. The sentences announce: “Languages of the World: This is an archive of over 1,500 human languages assembled in the year 02008 C.E. Magnify 1,000 times to find over 13,000 pages of language documentation.” "

http://kk.org/kk/2008/08/very-longterm-backup.php

Backing up Large Files

"There are quite a few programs for backing up files, some with graphical interfaces, some with web interfaces and others which work from the command line. They are mostly designed to do scheduled backups to a server or hard disc but I wanted a straighforward way to make one-off backups of some large files to DVDs or a USB drive. I decided, therefore, to use a simple command line procedure to do most of the work. It takes only two commands to create the archive and three to restore the archive and check it for errors."

http://www.electronic-equipments.co.uk/tutorial/linux/backup_large_files.html

SpiderOak Online Backup

"Picture a world where all the documents, photos, songs, and/or movies on your various computers or external drives will never be lost again... Welcome to SpiderOak. We understand how frustrating the permanent loss of valuable data can be. As such, let SpiderOak revolutionize the way you manage your digital life - providing a secure, automated, and easy-to-use approach to backup, store, access, and share."



https://spideroak.com/



Review:



"First, they offer GPLv3 code that they’ve developed for use with SpiderOak, to the general public. Any company with a “giving back” attitude like that, gets a big thumbs up in my book. Second - they offer a free 2GB of storage. Similar to other services yes, but there are some that don’t have any free storage, rather a “trial period”. So if you only want to backup 2GB worth of files using SpiderOak, you’ll never have to pay. Third - they are actually cross platform. Not just Mac and Windows cross platform, but Mac, Windows and Linux (Ubuntu/Debain)."



http://www.backupreview.info/2008/07/11/review-spider-oak-online-backup/

MySQLDumper

"MySQLDumper is a backupscript for MySQL-Databases, written in PHP and Perl."

http://www.mysqldumper.de/en/

Rsnapshot

"rsnapshot is a filesystem snapshot utility for making backups of local and remote systems. "

http://www.rsnapshot.org/

Amanda: Open Source Backup

"Amanda is the most popular open source backup and recovery software in the world. Amanda protects more than half a million of servers and desktops running various versions of Linux, UNIX, BSD, Mac OS-X and Microsoft Windows operating systems worldwide."

http://amanda.zmanda.com/

Easy local and remote backup of your home network

"I hate making backups by hand. It costs a lot of time and usually I have far better things to do. Long ago (in the Windows 98 era) I made backups to CD only before I needed to reïnstall the OS, which was about once every 18 months, and my code projects maybe twice as often. A lot has changed since those dark times though. My single PC expanded into a network with multiple desktops and a server, I installed a mix of Debian an Ubuntu and ditched Windows, and I have a nice broadband link - just as my friends do. Finally a lazy git like me can set up a decent backup system that takes care of itself, leaving me time to do the "better" things (such as writing about it :-)

There are already quite a few tutorials on the internet explaining various ways to backup your Linux system using built-in commands and a script of some sorts, but I could not find one that suited me so I decided to write another one - one that takes care of backing up my entire network."

http://www.jejik.com/articles/2006/07/easy_local_and_remote_backup_of_your_home_network/

Time Machine for Every Unix out there

"rsync is one of the tools that have gradually infiltrated my day to day tool-box (aside Vim and Zsh).

Using rsync it’s very easy to mimic Mac OS X new feature called Time Machine. In this article I’ll show how to do it, but there is still a nice GUI missing – for those who like it shiny."

http://blog.interlinked.org/tutorials/rsync_time_machine.html

BackupPC Information

"BackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up Linux and WinXX PCs and laptops to a server's disk. BackupPC is highly configurable and easy to install and maintain. "

http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/info.html

Zmanda: Leader In Open Source Backup and Recovery

* Intelligent backup of network systems
* No proprietary data formats
* Backup to disk, tape, and optical devices
* Backup of Windows open files
* Role based access control and encryption
* Lowest cost of ownership
* World's most popular Open Source Backup software

http://www.zmanda.com/

Free Online Backup – IDrive – Encrypted, Secure and Automated

"IDrive is an automated and encrypted online backup solution for your data, without any backup / restore restrictions or bandwidth / file type limitations."

http://www.idrive.com/

Diino -- Store, share, backup, access and manage your files

"With Diino you can easily store, share, manage, access, send and backup your documents, music, e-mails, photos and files with the highest security available online. Your data is stored on our secure servers."

http://www.diino.co.uk/

Flickrbackup - A Java Download Utility for Flickr

FlickrBackup is a utility that allows you to download the pictures you have uploaded to Flickr back down to your computer for personal backup or restore.

http://sunkencity.org/flickrbackup/

Back up like an expert with rsync

"It takes a little time to become familiar with rsync, but once you are, you should be able to handle most of your backup needs with just a short script."

http://www.linux.com/feature/117236