Open Source Java Backup Software for Linux

Areca-Backup is a file backup software that supports incremental, image and delta backup on local drives or FTP servers. Areca-Backup also allows you to browse your backups and navigate among different version of the files contained in your archives.

This independent development (fork) of Areca Backup attempts to extend its lifespan by fixing bugs and adding some new features while keeping its simplicity. Areca was originally developed by Olivier PETRUCCI (aventin): https://sourceforge.net/projects/areca/

Native (JNI) cross-platform library to extract (password protected, multi-part) 7z Zip Rar Tar Split Lzma Iso HFS GZip Cpio BZip2 Z Arj Chm Lhz Cab Nsis Deb Rpm Wim Udf archives and create 7z, Zip, Tar, GZip & BZip2 from Java.

Jar Ajar is a JAR-based self-extractor for zip files. Zip up files and package them with descriptive images and text using Jar Ajar's graphical interface. When recipients launch the resulting JAR, Jar Ajar guides users through the unzip process.

.NET wrapper for 7Zip, based on 7-Zip-JBinding, produced with IKVM. Extracts (password protected, multi-part) 7z Zip Rar Tar Split Lzma Iso HFS GZip Cpio BZip2 Z Arj Chm Lhz Cab Nsis Deb Rpm Udf archives. Archive creation/more formats coming soon.

BAR can create compressed, encrypted and splitted archives of files and disk images which can be stored on a disk, cd, dvd, bd or directly on a ftp, scp or sftp server. A server-mode and a scheduler is integrated for making automated backups.

BeoZip is a Java application that backs up data into ZIP files while also providing additional archiving utilities. This program uses the Java APIs for reading and writing ZIP files.

JBackupWithZip is a java program for backing up oftenly some selected folders and files. You select some folders and/or some files by browsing your harddrives and then zip it (in zip format). The selection is saved to redo the zip easily when needed.

SFXCompress is an utility used to pack and/or encrypt a directory on a self-extracting file. It also includes the calculation of the MD5 function to check if the compressed file is correct. SFXCompress-gui is the graphical user interface written in Java of the Console utility sfxcompress. The Application comes also with the console version. MAC users, download "SFXCompress-bundle.dmg", double click and execute the script "InstallationScript" included into the dmg image. Linux Users: download "sfxcompress-bundle.tar.gz" or "sfxcompress-bundle.tar" and execute the script "install".

TNT Mocha Backup Platform Independent backup utility written in Java. Uses ZIP files for data storage. Now supports file permission backup for restore by standard utilities in linux such as unzip.

Simple command-line directory incremental backup tool. Create compressed point-in-time snapshots, adding only new or modified files each time. Uses a file catalog so previous zip volumes are not needed for backup. Archives are automatically time-stamped.

This app intents to be an easy way to make backups of large amount of files into medias such as CDs or DVDs. Also it compress groups of files to fit in the size of dest. media. To avoid integrity problems during decompression, no files are divided.

A Java based front-end GUI for jar with a user interface similar to the Windows WinZip.

BackDup is a Duplicity (http://duplicity.nongnu.org/) front-end for MacOS and Linux written in Java. Duplicity creates bandwidth-efficient backup using the rsync algorithm. Mac OS users: please install Duplicity via macports (https://www.macports.org/) Linux users: install Duplicity via your package manager as usual.