Zbackup Deduplicating Tool for Linux Ubuntu. Install Zbackup on Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04 and Derivatives. zbackup is a globally-deduplicating backup tool, based on the ideas found in rsync.
Feed a large .tar into it, and it will store duplicate regions of it only once, then compress and optionally encrypt the result. Feed another .tar file, and it will also re-use any data found in any previous backups. This way only new changes are stored, and as long as the files are not very different, the amount of storage required is very low. Any of the backup files stored previously can be read back in full at any time.
The program has the following features:
- Parallel LZMA or LZO compression of the stored data
- Built-in AES encryption of the stored data
- Possibility to delete old backup data
- Use of a 64-bit rolling hash, keeping the amount of soft collisions to zero
- Repository consists of immutable files. No existing files are ever modified
- Written in C++ only with only modest library dependencies
- Safe to use in production (see below)
- Possibility to exchange data between repos without recompression
Install Zbackup Deduplicating Tool on Linux Ubuntu
Zbackup can be installed on Ubuntu and Arch Linux Systems via PPA. To install, open Terminal and run the following commands to install Zbackup via PPA for Ubuntu and derivatives:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:eugenesan/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install zbackup
You can also download the Latest release: 1.4.3 from the following links:
Download.zip file
Download .tar.gz file
To build and install:
cd zbackup
cmake
make
sudo make install
# or just run as ./zbackup
Please note that zbackup works with all kinds of archive formats. The program does not have any facilities for sending your backup over the network. You can rsync the repo to another computer or use any kind of cloud storage capable of storing files.
The Zbackup can also be installed via the AUR repository on Arch Linux and systems:
$ sudo pacman -S yaourt
$ sudo yaourt zbackup