G4L is a free and open source ncurses-based hard disk and partition imaging and cloning tool. The created images are optionally compressed.
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Category: System Software
Clonezilla – partition and disk imaging/cloning software
Clonezilla is a console based partition or disk clone software similar to Symantec Ghost Corporate.
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GParted – graphical partition editor
GParted is a graphical partition editor for creating, resizing, moving, copying and checking partitions across many filesystems and devices.
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Fastfetch – fetch system information
Fastfetch is a system information tool written in C. It aims to be a faster alternative to the hugely respected Neofetch tool.
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CPU-G – shows useful information about your hardware
CPU-G is an open source application that shows useful information about your hardware. The software is released under an open source license.
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lshw – Hardware Lister
lshw is a small open source tool to extract detailed and comprehensive information on the hardware configuration of the machine.
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i7z – i7 (and now i3, i5) reporting tool
i7z is a small open source utility that reports Intel Core i7, i5, i3 CPU information. The information displayed covers Turbo Boost, frequencies, …
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hwinfo – hardware information tool
hwinfo is used to probe for the hardware present in the system. It can generate a system overview log which can be later used for support.
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macchina – system information fetcher
macchina lets you view system information, like your kernel version, uptime, memory usage, processor load and much more.
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KInfoCenter – view information about your KDE system
KInfoCenter provides a central KDE interface for viewing system, hardware, memory, energy, graphics, network and device information.
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dmidecode – reports information about your system’s hardware
dmidecode reports information about your system’s hardware as described in your system BIOS according to the SMBIOS/DMI standard.
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SafeKeep – centralized and easy to use backup program
SafeKeep is a centralized and easy to use backup application that combines the best features of a mirror and an incremental backup.
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Cedar Backup – manage system backups for a pool of local and remote machines
Cedar Backup is a free and open source software package designed to manage system backups for a pool of local and remote machines.
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PING – PING Is Not Ghost
PING (PING Is Not Ghost) is a free, open source distribution that offers similar functionality to Symantec Ghost. It backs up and restores a hard disk.
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BURP – network backup and restore program
BURP (BackUp and Restore Program) is an open source network backup and restore program. It uses librsync to save network traffic.
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XtraBackup – physical backup utility for MySQL
Percona XtraBackup creates physical backups for supported MySQL and Percona servers, with incremental backups, encryption and streaming.
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Partclone – save and restore used blocks on a partition
Partclone is a free and open source program similar to the well-known backup utility “Partition Image” a.k.a partimage.
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FOG – network computer cloning and management software
Fog is a free and open source computer imaging solution. FOG ties together many open-source applications and adds an attractive web interface.
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rsnapshot – filesystem snapshot utility based on rsync
rsnapshot is an rsync-based filesystem snapshot utility. It can take incremental backups of local and remote filesystems for any number of machines.
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rsync – fast incremental file transfer
rsync is an open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer. It copies files either to or from a remote host, or locally.
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