Top 10 Linux Backup Utilities



5. Simple Backup Solution

Simple backup solution is tailored for desktops and thus allows regular expressions that need to be used for exclusion purposes. As it uses compresses archives it is therefore not a good solution for large amounts of data. The best feature of this solution is that it includes predefined, manual, scheduled as well as custom backups. Simple backup solution sports one of the most user friendly interfaces.

6. Amanda

Amanda is robust, reliable and most importantly flexible and thus it stands out among other backup solutions. It uses the tar and Linux dump to execute the process and supports separate applications for servers and clients. Servers can use Amanda without any installation though the client version may require an Amanda-client application that needs to be installed. It allows the users to set up single backup and generate multiple hosts to it.

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