Synbak - Universal Backup System
http://www.initzero.it/products/opensource/synbak/

What is Synbak?

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 smb and cifs protocols) - Tar (tar.gz and tar.bz2) archives
- Tape (even using multi loader changer tapes) - LDAP databases
- MySQL databases
- CDR/CD-RW/DVR/DVD-RW

and more...

Synbak can make reports using:
- Email
- Html pages
- RSS feeds
- and more...

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.

Features

rchitecture

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 esclusion 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
remote backups via ssh, rsync 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 backup verify

MySQL

backup dumps of local or remote MySQL servers
bzip2 compression for sql dumps
local multiple database dumps specifying the MySQL database dir (will create a dump for each database found)
remote databases backup in a single SQL dump
database inclusion pattern
database exclusion pattern

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