- Home
- Backup software
- storeBackup
On the recordRead 12 Oct 202625 facts
storeBackup
Plans and prices
storeBackup
Free
GPL-v3 or later · source download
Read 12 Oct 2026 · nongnu.org
On the record
- Backup scope
- mixednongnu.org · read 20 Sep 2026
- Computer backup
- Yesnongnu.org · read 20 Sep 2026
- Deduplication
- It identifies identical file contents, including renamed or copied files, and uses hard links to save space while keeping each backup complete.nongnu.org · read 12 Oct 2026
- File selection
- It provides options to include and exclude files and directories.nongnu.org · read 12 Oct 2026
- Image backups
- It can split large image files or devices into pieces and save only differences from existing backups.nongnu.org · read 12 Oct 2026
- Image files
- It can split large image files or complete devices into smaller pieces and save only differences from existing backups.nongnu.org · read 12 Oct 2026
- Integrity checks
- It can check backups and source files using MD5 sums to help detect disk bit rot.nongnu.org · read 12 Oct 2026
- Latency
- The documentation describes fast backups over slow or high-latency network connections.nongnu.org · read 12 Oct 2026
- License
- The manual says storeBackup is licensed under GPL version 3 or any later version.nongnu.org · read 12 Oct 2026
- Maintainer and contact
- The documentation is credited to Heinz-Josef Claes with contributor support and gives hjclaes at web.de for questions or comments.nongnu.org · read 12 Oct 2026
- Mobile backup
- Nonongnu.org · read 20 Sep 2026
- Monitoring
- The documentation describes checking logs for ERROR and WARNING messages and mentions a Nagios or Icinga plugin.nongnu.org · read 12 Oct 2026
- Offline backups
- It supports isolated incremental backups, such as backups made while traveling with a laptop, and later integration into a master backup.nongnu.org · read 12 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- storeBackup is a space-efficient disk-to-disk backup suite for GNU/Linux and other Unix-like systems.nongnu.org · read 12 Oct 2026
- Recovery
- The documentation says backups can be restored from their native storage format even without storeBackup.nongnu.org · read 12 Oct 2026
- Replication
- It supports time-shifted replication of backups to additional disks or locations, including complex schemes.nongnu.org · read 12 Oct 2026
- Restore format
- The documentation says backups use a transparent native storage format and can be restored without storeBackup.nongnu.org · read 12 Oct 2026
- Restore modes
- filenongnu.org · read 20 Sep 2026
