About

Backup Manager is a command line backup tool for GNU/Linux, designed to help you make daily archives of your file system. Written in bash and perl, it can make archives in lots of open formats (tar, gzip, bzip2, lzma, dar, zip) and provides lots of interesting features (such as network exports or CD/DVD automated-burning).

The program is designed to be as easy to use as possible and is popular with desktop users and sysadmins. The whole backup process is defined in one full-documented configuration file which needs no more than 5 minutes to tune for your needs. It just works.

Archives are kept for a given number of days and the upload system can use ftp or scp to transfer the generated archives to a list of remote hosts. Gettext is used for internationalization.

Features

Easy and automatic operation

• 1 configuration file, 5 minutes setup.
• Manually invoke backup process or run daily unattended via CRON.

Comprehensive Backup

• Backup files, MySQL databases and Subversion repositories.
• Specify multiple targets to backup at once (/etc, /home, etc…).
• Ability to exclude files from backup.
• Automatically purge old backups.

Backup Methods

• Full backup only or Full + Incremental backup.
• Backup to an attached disk, LAN or Internet.
• Burns backup to CD/DVD with MD5 checksum verification.
• Archives in lots of open formats: tar, gzip, bzip2, lzma, dar, zip.
• Slice archives to 2 GB if using dar archives format.

Secure

• Backup over SSH.
• Encrypts archives.
• Offsite remote upload of archives via FTP, SSH, RSYNC or Amazon S3.

Advanced

• Can run with different configuration files concurrently.
• Easy external hooks.

Restoration

• Simply uncompressed the open format backup archives with any command line or GUI tool.

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