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A good backup plan is essential in order to have the ability to recover from
Human errors
RAID or disk failure
File system corruption
Data center destruction and more.
In this post I'm going to list amazingly awesome open source Backup software for you.
What to look for when choosing backup software for an enterprise?
Make sure the following features are supported backup software you deploy:
1. Open source software - You must use software for which the original source code is made freely available and may
be and modified. This ensures that you can recover your data in case vendor/project stopped working on software or
refused to provide patches.
2. Cross-platform support - Make sure backup software works well on the OS deployed on all desktop and server
operating systems.
3. Data format - Open data format ensures that you can recover data in case vendor or project stopped working on
software.
4. Autochangers - Autochangers are nothing but a variety of backup devices, including library, near-line storage, and
autoloader. Autochangers allows you to automate the task of loading, mounting, and labeling backup media such as
tape.
5. Backup media - Make sure you can backup data on tape, disk, DVD and in cloud storage such as AWS.
6. Encryption datastream - Make sure all client-to-server traffic will be encrypted to ensure transmission integrity over
the LAN/WAN/Internet.
7. Database support - Make sure backup software can backup database server such as MySQL or Oracle.
8. Backup span multiple volumes - Backup software can split each backup (dumpfile) into a series of parts, allowing
for different parts to existing on different volumes. This ensures that large backups (such as 100TB file) can be stored
on larger than a single backup device such as disk or tape volume.
9. VSS (Volume Shadow Copy) - It is Microsoft's Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and it is used to create
snapshots of data that is to be backed up. Make sure backup software support VSS for MS-Windows client/server.
10. Deduplication - It is a data compression technique for eliminating duplicate copies of repeating data (for example,
images).
11. License and cost - Make sure you understand and use of open source license under which the original backup
software is made available to you.
12. Commercial support - Open source software can provide community based (such as email list or fourm) or
professional (such as subscriptions provided at additional cost) based support. You can use paid professional support
for training and consulting purpose.
13. Reports and alerts - Finally, you must able to see backup reports, current job status, and get alert when something
goes wrong while making backups.
Autochangers: Yes
VSS: Yes
Autochangers: Yes
VSS: Yes
Autochangers: N/A
Backup media: Disk/DVD/CD/ISO images
Encryption datastream: Yes (ssh) and encrypted remote backups via duplicity
VSS: ??
License : GPL
Backup Levels : Full and incremental (rsync+hard links and pooling scheme)
Autochangers: N/A
VSS: ??
License : GPL
Operating system : Linux/FreeBSD/Unix/Windows/several Linux based NAS operating systems. Client only runs on Linux and Windows.
Autochangers: N/A
Database support: ??
VSS: ??
1. Rsnapshot - I recommend this tool for local and remote filesystem snapshot utility. See how to set and use this tool on
Debian/Ubuntu Linux and CentOS/RHEL based systems.
2. rdiff-backup - Another great remote incremental backup tool for Unix-like systems.
3. Burp - Burp is a network backup and restore program. It uses librsync in order to save network traffic and to save on
the amount of space that is used by each backup. It also uses VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service) to make
snapshots when backing up Windows computers.
4. Duplicity - Great encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup for Unix-like system. See how to Install Duplicity for
encrypted backup in cloud for more infomation.
5. SafeKeep - SafeKeep is a centralized and easy to use backup application that combines the best features of a mirror
and an incremental backup.
6. DREBS - DREBS is a tool for taking periodic snapshots of EBS volumes. It is designed to be run on the EC2 host
which the EBS volumes to be snapshoted are attached.
7. Old good unix programs like rsync, tar, cpio, mt and dump.
Conclusion
I hope you will find this post useful to backup your important data. Do not forgot to verify your backups and make multiple
backup copies of your data. Also, RAID is not a backup solution. Use any one of the above-mentioned programs to backup
your servers, desktop/laptop and personal mobile devices. If you know of any other open source backup software I didn't
mention, share them in the comments below.
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