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SysBackup helps you Be Prepared to recover from occasional disasters of different types. Perhaps more importantly: SysBackup helps you collect the data you need to respond to the day-to-day information requests you get from your user community.

SysBackup is designed to perform:

• automated
• one-step
• full backups that are
• as fine-grained as you need for easy data retrieval,
• written to local and/or remote network storage,
• optionally encrypted for security on public systems,
• in automatically pruned daily, weekly and monthly rotations,
• using algorythms designed to save disk space and network bandwidth (almost as if you generated only incremental backupsets,)
• using a growing collection of specialized backup plugins, for services such as MySQL and MailMan, that automatically collect and organize information for you.

The Quick Install utility allows you to be up-and-running with a minimum of effort, easy job configuration allows you to tweak your backups in response to your day-to-day data retrieval issues and specialized plugins allow you to execute complex tasks in a single job.

Basic Features

• Easily setup and manage automated nightly backups of any server or workstation
• Use local storage on available disk space with simultaneous remote storage via Secure Copy
• Make full backups using the disk space and network bandwidth of incremental backups.
• Optionally encrypt backupsets for storage on cloud-based services such as Amazon Web Services.
• Carefully specify folders and plugins to create fine-grained backups of often-requested data or choose plugins that create bulk backups of folders containing less-frequently requested information
• Automatically manages daily, weekly and monthly rotations, with pruning, for unattended operation over long periods of time

Plugin and Job-Based Architecture

• Easy setup of Jobs to:
  • Specify groups of files and folders to backup into fine-grained or coarse-grained tarballs according to needs.
  • Specify services, such as MySQL servers and MailMan installations, to be fully backed-up using plugins specially designed for them.
  • Specify system elements to be backed-up using plugins that aid in system reconstruction and/or migration.
• A growing collection of plugins:
  • Generic:
    • Home Folders
    • System Folders
    • Mail Folders
  • Services:
    • MySQL
    • MailMan
  • System:
    • Debian & Redhat derived Linux Distro's:
      • Users & Groups
      • System package list

And more...

• Easy job setup
• Easy configuration of SysBackup to use your favorite system utilities for reliable tarballing and compressing of data. Defaults to tar and gzip.
• Written entirely in PHP - the most popular scripting language in the world today.
• Check-out the existing plugins to find out how easy it is to write new plugins (it's easy!)
• Extensively tested and used on Debian-based Ubuntu, Redhat-based Fedora and CentOS operating systems. Should work well on any distro with PHP 5.1 or better.
• Minimal System Requirements
• Quick and easy Basic Install with the Quick Install utility. Manual install involves making a number of folders and setting-up a configuration file.
• Sophisticated use of Remote Storage through OpenSSH for secure communications and carefull usage of disk space.