Free Backup Utilities

Amanda - AMANDA, the Advanced Maryland Automated Network Disk Archiver, is a public domain utility developed at the University of Maryland. It is as advanced as a free backup utility gets, and has quite a large user community. AMANDA allows you to set up a single master backup server to back up multiple hosts to a single backup drive. (It also works with a number of stackers.) AMANDA uses native dump and/or GNUtar, and can back up a large number of workstations running multiple versions of Unix.
Download           OS: Unix           

DBackup - It is freeware program to backup easier and faster your data. The files included in the backup are selected by their type, not by their name. Therefore all the unnecessary files are skipped and, furthermore, the backup automatically supports new files addition.
Download           OS: Windows/95/98/NT/2000            Size: 1.85Mb

XXCOPY - Utility which runs in command line mode. Comes with a 16-bit version. (XXCOPY16.EXE copies files using the short (8.3 format) name only.) Duplicates the entire system drive which can boot Win9x. Keeps the same short name (8.3) in the destination as in the source. The source specifier accepts wildcards in directory names also. Backs up directory incrementally without the use of archive bit. Synchronizes directories. Controls file attributes (keeps the source, destination attributes or none). Excludes directories or files from copying by wild cards. Handles a Cyclic Copy case much better than XCOPY. Qualifies files by file date/time (Before, On, or After). Deletes files or directories using the same powerful selection mechanism. Copies hidden/system files, and overwrites Read-only files. Flattens a directory tree into files in one directory. ... and many, many, intimidatingly more ... (over 200 command switches) Copies security information for NTFS volume archiving. Supersedes Microsoft's ROBOCOPY. Works very much like XCOPY with the same command syntax. Available in two flavors; Freeware and Pro Edition
Download           OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003           

Bacula - Bacula is a set of computer programs that permit you (or the system administrator) to manage backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of computers of different kinds. In technical terms, it is a network based backup program. Bacula is relatively easy to use and efficient, while offering many advanced storage management features that make it easy to find and recover lost or damaged files. Most of the Bacula source code has been released under a slightly modified version of the GPL version 2 license. If you wish additional details, please follow the License link to your left.
Download           OS: Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP | Linux | FreeBSD | MacOS | OpenBSD | Irix |           

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