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 · 12 hand-coded · 3 unlabelled
Operator · 14 open source · 1 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 15 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 81docker-backup0★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceCommand-line utility that creates and restores complete self-contained backups of Docker containers.
- 82rsync-readcap0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceUtility that creates an rsync variant with read-everywhere permissions for pull-based backup scenarios.
- 83discspan0★11 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceUtility that spans a directory backup across multiple DVDs for offline archiving.
- 84katarina0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourcePerl backup system that uses rsync as transport to back up and restore files.
- 85adler-backup0★unknownliveDesktop application that automates Linux backups using rsync, with configurable profiles, scheduling, real-time progress, and backup history.
- 86backup-manager0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceProvides an easy-to-use backup solution for creating archives.
- 87backupfs0★10 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceNetwork-extended clone of the Plan 9 dump file system for backups.
- 88bakonf0★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceTool that backs up selected system configuration files and captures system information.
- 89cutback0★7 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceBackup system that creates smaller, more focused backups by selecting essential files rather than whole disks.
- 90acts0★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceShell script that automates backups to the Tarsnap online backup service from the command line.
- 91auto-rsync-backups0★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceScript that automates and rotates file backups to keep a rolling set of snapshots.
- 92mango0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceBackup tool that makes backups of installed Arch packages and their dependencies for restoration.
- 93unandmanager0★9 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceUtility that creates a complete backup of a specifically modified system firmware installation to protect against corruption and allow restoration.
- 94mysql-db-backup0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceScript that automatically archives MySQL databases for backup and recovery.
- 95libproxmox-backup-qemu0-dev-bin0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceDevelopment package for the Proxmox Backup QEMU library.
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