UrBackup is an easy to setup open source client/server backup system, that through a combination of image and file backups accomplishes both data safety and a fast restoration time. UrBackup is divided into a server and a client software part. The server is responsible for discovering clients, backing them up, deleting backups if the storage is depleted or too many backups are present, generating statistics and managing client settings. The client is relatively dumb.
File and image backups are made while the system is running without interrupting current processes.
UrBackup also continuously watches folders you want backed up in order to quickly find differences to previous backups. Because of that incremental file backups are really fast.
Files can be restored through the web interface. Backups of drive volumes can be restored with a bootable CD or USB-Stick (bare metal restore).
Features include:
- Full and incremental image and file backups: Whole partitions can be saved as well as single directories.
- Fast calculation of file tree differences leads to very fast incremental file backups – only new changed files will be retransmitted.
- Only used and changed hard disk sectors are transmitted during an incremental image backup.
- Image and file backups while the system is running.
- Backups of used files.
- Same files on different computers are saved only once. Less server storage space is needed for your backups (file level deduplication).
- Fast file and image transmission.
- Clients can change their settings like backup frequency or number of backups and can take a look at logfiles of their backups.
- Next to no configuration. Install, select the directories you want to backup and watch it backup.
- Client warns if there was no backup for some time.
- Web interface that shows the status of the clients, current activities and statistics. It allows the administrator to change backup settings and override the settings for the clients. Existing file backups can be browsed and files from these backups can be extracted.
- Reports about backups can be send to users or administrators.
- Secure and efficient backups to your own server via Internet, if the client is currently not in your local network.
- Fast file and image backups.
- Easy to configure.
- Consistent backups while in use.
- Backup clients via Internet.
- Space efficient.
- Web interface. The backup server has an integrated web interface that shows the status of the clients, current activities and statistics.
- Multi-platform. UrBackup server currently runs on Windows, GNU/Linux, FreeBSD and several Linux based NAS operating systems.
Website: www.urbackup.org
Support: Manual, FAQ
Developer: Martin Raiber
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
UrBackup is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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