LuckyBackup

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luckyBackup
Developer(s) Loukas Avgeriou [1]
Stable release
0.5.0 / November 18, 2018;8 months ago (2018-11-18) [2]
Written in C++
Operating system Linux, Unix [ citation needed ], Mac OS X, Windows [3]
Type Backup
License GPL 3 [4]
Website luckybackup.sourceforge.net

luckyBackup is a free backup application. It provides a GUI based on the cross-platform Qt framework and is not fundamentally console based or web based as many of the clients from the list of backup software are. It shares the data differencing and copying tool, rsync, with BackupPC, and several others. It runs on any Linux or Unix based system which provides Qt libraries and rsync. The GUI is translated in many languages and is available in repositories of all major Linux distributions including Debian, Ubuntu, openSUSE, Fedora, Mandriva, Slackware and Gentoo.

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References

  1. ↑ http://luckybackup.sourceforge.net/news.html
  2. ↑ LuckyBackup on SourceForge.net
  3. ↑ Avgeriou, Loukas. "luckyBackup" . Retrieved 12 April 2015.
  4. 1 2 "luckyBackup". openDesktop.org. 28 March 2014.
  5. ↑ "LuckyBackUp – Open Source Remote Backup for Linux Users". Online Storage News. 14 April 2010. Archived from the original on 17 April 2010.
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