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Synbak :: Universal Backup System

Synbak is an application designed to unify several backup methods. Synbak provides a powerful reporting system and a very simple interface for configuration files.

Synbak is a wrapper for several existing backup programs suppling the end user with common method for configuration that will manage the execution logic for every single backup and will give detailed reports of backups result.

Synbak can make backups using:

RSync over ssh, rsync daemon, smb and cifs protocols (using internal automount functions)
Tar archives (tar, tar.gz and tar.bz2)
Tape devices (using multi loader changer tapes too)
LDAP databases
MySQL databases
Oracle databases
CD-RW/DVD-RW
Wget to mirror HTTP/FTP servers

Synbak can make reports using:

EMail
HTML pages
RSS feeds

Moreover, if you are a developer and want to contribute, the modular nature of synbak will allow you to easly write new backup methods, reports, and translations.

Please read the features list and look the screenshots to know what Synbak can do for you.

Currently official support is given to GNU/Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora Core Distributions only...

Help us to improve the compatibility with others Linux and Unix Operating System testing synbak, reporting bugs and improving Synbak.

Report bugs and feedback to opensource@initzero.it

Synbak Features

Architecture

Miscellaneous Features

useful to backup servers, workstations and also laptops (not always network connected computers)
input and output strings on UTF-8 charset format only
easy concept and structure
system, method and report concept
support many backup methods
common config file and interface for configuring every backup method
fully multi users backup system, can run under normal user accounts or root user to keep all remote file permissions
auto erase of old backups
powerful reporting facility
heasily understandable backup reports
backup speed calculation
provide many backup information
you can create exclusion filters using regexp expressions
modular architecture for developers
ALL remote backups can be specified using a standard URI (Uniform Resource Identifiers) format (ex. cifs://usr:pwd@host/share)
auto mounting and umounting of remote cifs/smb shares
fully localized using the standard GNU gettext framework

Backup Methods

Rsync

backup of local and remote files using the beautiful and super fast 'rsync' protocol
incremental backups
total backups
local backups (from source directories to destination backup directory)
remote backups via crypted ssh, rsync daemon and smb/cifs protocols
auto mounting/umounting of remote system shares using smb/cifs protocols

Tar

backup of local files into flat tar archives
optional support for bzip2 compression
optional support for gzip compression
optional support for archive verify

MySQL

backup dumps of local or remote MySQL servers
bzip2 compression for sql dumps
remote databases backup into single SQL bzip2 compressed dump file
remote databases backup splitted into multiple SQL bzip2 compressed dump files (one for each database)
database inclusion pattern
database exclusion pattern

Oracle

dumps of local or remote Oracle database servers
bzip2 compression for sql dumps
remote or local databases backup in a single SQL dump

LDAP

backup dumps of local or remote LDAP (Light Weight Directory Access Protocol) directory servers
bzip2 compression for ldif dumps
ldif dump of remote LDAP servers

Tape