Last Updated on October 11, 2023
Simple Backup Solution is a set of backend backup daemon and GNOME Graphical User Interface (GUI) frontends that provides a simple yet powerful backup solution for common desktop users.
Backups can be written to local directory or remote servers using GNOME VFS technology. A fine control is possible regarding what folders and files to backup. Files can be excluded even with a set of regular expressions. Regular backups can be scheduled.
This tool has been written with Google sponsorship during Summer of Code 2005 with mentoring help from Ubuntu.
Features include:
- Backup any subset of files and directories.
- Exclude files and directories by regex expressions.
- Exclude files by type (extension).
- Exclude files by maximum file size.
- Backup to local filesystem.
- Backup to any GnomeVFS supported remote filesystem (including sftp and ftp).
- Full and incremental backups.
- Scheduling backups via cron.
- Gnome GUI for configuration.
- Gnome GUI for restore.
- Command line restore tool that also provides python API for restoring a file or directory.
- Backing up package list in Debian derived distributions.
- On restore, existing files are not overwritten, but are renamed to a safe name.
Website: sourceforge.net/projects/sbackup
Support:
Developer: Aigars Mahinovs, Jonh Wendell, Ouattara Oumar Aziz, Andreas Sliwka
License: GNU GPL v2
Simple Backup Solution is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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