Paranoid Backup
 
Home Documentation Sample Configurations Quick Reference A flexible, extensible, platform independent, and open source backup framework. You can’t be paranoid enough when it comes to backups!
No more DVD juggling and forgotten backups! Hard disks have become big enough to store not only your important data, but also backups of your data as well as that of your friends.
Paranoid Backup implements fully automated and tailor-made data backup strategies. Particularly, it can read, transform, compress, encrypt, and filter the contents of any data source; additionally it replicates data backups to other computers, thereby achieving a very high level of data security.
Runs scheduled backup sessions automatically at regular intervals
Can use built-in modules or external applications 1
Reads any type of data from any type of existing data source (file systems, databases, web services etc)2
uses your favorite compression and encryption algorithms 2
Keeps a certain number of previous versions of backups
Copies backups to computers (and vice versa)
Can be extended to support more backup strategies, data sources, processing modules etc
1 Paranoid Backup can incorporate any external application that is run from the command line
2 Provide your own modules for Paranoid Backup, or see 1