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 · 10 hand-coded · 10 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.
- 41system-tar-and-restore0★7 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceCommand-line utility that backs up and restores the entire system using tar or rsync.
- 42bak0★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceBackup tool that copies specified files and directories to a backup destination.
- 43btrbackup0★10 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceBackup tool that creates snapshots and transfers them from one filesystem to another for data safety.
- 44backupchecker0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceAutomated tool that verifies backup completeness and integrity for data protection.
- 45easybackup0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceIncremental backup script that synchronizes specified directories to a backup location using rsync.
- 46btrfs-sxbackup0★9 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceIncremental backup tool that supports both push and pull transfers of snapshots over a network connection.
- 47darbup0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceWrapper script that automates regular backups using the dar archive tool.
- 48btrbck0★9 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceIncremental backup tool that uses filesystem snapshots to capture changes and preserve them for recovery.
- 49snapman0★7 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceBackup tool that creates filesystem snapshots and restores previous versions of data.
- 50duplicacy-util0★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceCommand-line utility that runs and automates Duplicacy cloud backups.
- 51rsbackup0★1 moliveopen sourceCommand-line utility using rsync to perform scheduled incremental backups of specified directories and manage backup history.
- 52rsbackup-graph0★1 moliveopen sourceTool that visualizes backup status from rsbackup data, producing graphical graphs to monitor backup health and success.
- 53backintime0★6 mostaleliveopen sourceBackup program with a graphical interface that schedules filesystem snapshots and restores them.
- 54backupmenu0★6 mostaleliveopen sourceTerminal-based backup utility for Linux distributions, written in Bash.
- 55bontmia0★6 mostaleliveopen sourceIncremental backup and rotation tool built on rsync for keeping dated backups of directories.
- 56virtnbdbackup0★6 mostaleliveopen sourceBackup utility for virtual machines that copies disk images and restores data from snapshots.
- 57gdg-bin0★7 mostaleliveopen sourceCommand-line tool that backs up and restores Grafana dashboards, connections, and other resources for administrators.
- 58rusticlone0★7 mostaleliveopen sourceCommand-line utility that orchestrates scheduled 3-2-1 backups to local and remote storage locations.
- 59bareos-tools0★8 mostaleliveopen sourceCommand-line utilities for copying, extracting, listing, and managing backup archives.
- 60autorestic0★8 mostaleliveopen sourceConfig-driven command-line tool that automates encrypted backups to multiple storage locations.
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.