CLUSTER BACKUP-COMMAND-LINE · 95 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2006-03-05
File backup and restore utilities
This cluster spans command-line, GUI, and script-based tools for creating, pruning, restoring, archiving, and synchronizing file backups — often wrapping established backends like Restic, rsync, or Tarsnap, or targeting specific destinations like DVDs and external drives. Dated entries appear irregularly from March 2006 through July 2026, with mostly one or two per month and occasional bursts of three, so the timeline shows no clear sustained shape. Traction leaders are filesnap (21 stars), Simple-Backup (13 stars), and ressac (0 stars).
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 5 hand-coded · 15 unlabelled
Operator · 20 open source
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 20 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 21backup2l0★4 moliveopen sourceLightweight command-line tool that creates and restores backups with minimal configuration.
- 22rdup0★4 moliveopen sourceCommand-line utility that generates file lists for backup to identify changed and incremental archiving.
- 23dar0★4 moliveopen sourceCommand-line backup tool that archives files and directories for disk storage and recovery.
- 24suisave0★6 mostaleliveopen sourceDeclarative backup tool that uses simple configuration to save and restore files.
- 25plakar0★4 moliveopen sourceBackup solution that captures filesystem snapshots and restores historical data.
- 26burp-backup0★7 mostaleliveopen sourceBackup and restore program that uses librsync to reduce backup size by creating incremental backups to local or remote destinations.
- 27KBackup0★4 molivehand-codedopen sourceBackup utility that creates tar archives from selected files and folders to local or remote destinations.
- 28runrestic0★12 daysliveopen sourceWrapper script for Restic that automates initialization, creation, pruning, and checking of backups.
- 29snapborg0★9 mostaleliveopen sourceAutomated backup tool that captures filesystem snapshots and archives them into a remote backup repository.
- 30bumgr0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceBackup manager that orchestrates Restic to create, restore, and manage encrypted backup snapshots from a command-line interface.
- 31linux-timemachine0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceCommand-line backup tool that provides OS X Time Machine-like incremental backups using rsync.
- 32fackup0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceCommand-line backup utility that automates file backups using rsync and dar, supporting incremental and full archives.
- 33hardcpy-bin0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceCommand-line backup tool that copies files to a chosen destination.
- 34backup-conf0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceCreates a tree-structured backup of configuration files in the current folder.
- 35conserve0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceCommand-line backup tool that creates portable and reliable backups of files and directories.
- 36synology-hyper-backup-explorer0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDesktop tool for browsing, decrypting, and extracting backup data from Hyper Backup repositories.
- 37python-yabu0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceCommand-line utility that automates backup tasks using rsync, including to remote servers.
- 38backup_btrfs0★8 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceBackup utilities designed for Btrfs filesystems that support snapshot-based backup management.
- 39caatinga0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceCommand-line backup program that creates and restores file backups from source directories to designated storage targets.
- 40snapback0★9 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceScripts that combine btrfs snapshots and borg backup for automated and reliable system backups.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.