Mandriva, the Linux vendor, has announced "Click'n'Backup", its own web based backup system. The service, reminiscent of the recently launched Canonical's Ubuntu One, includes online secure storage space and a backup and restore tool. Unlike Ubuntu One, the backup and restore tools are available for non-Mandriva Linux systems, Windows and Mac OS X.

Umarks 2 is Backup and restore Ubuntu installed packages on multiple machines, on a single machine after a clean install of Ubuntu or to restore a previous selection of packages.

Backup of database is very important in Database Projects. You can recover your data when problems occurs. A variety of backup strategies are used in MySQL. You can choose any one of them. This can also use for Installing your Software from One system to Another. This Method is not Distribution Specific, You can Use same command in Fedora, Mandriva, Debian, SUSE etc..

Redo Backup and Recovery is an easy-to-use, complete disaster recovery solution. It allows bare-metal restore, which means that even if your hard drive melts or gets completely erased by a virus, you can have a completely-functional system back up and running in as little as 10 minutes. Redo Backup and Recovery is just a GPLv3 Perl script built with a GTK2+ interface designed in Glade.

It's one of the best tools out there to make a disaster recovery disc or make an ISO of your own customized Ubuntu. It's an equivalent to Windows backup and restore (if you use it only for system recovery and not to recover your personal files).

There’s only one thing worse than having no backup at all: thinking you have a backup and finding out it doesn’t work when you go to restore. If you've never performed a test restore, you can’t say with any degree of certainty that you'll be able to recover lost data in the event of a disaster, because you've never tried.

There are tons of possible backup solutions for the Linux desktop (and/or server). I have covered a number of possible solutions here on Ghacks. One of my favorite (and the one I use most often) is Luckybackup (see my article “Luckybackup: Linux backup made easy“), but that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of really good solutions.

The (Not So) Simple Backup suite, short just nssbackup, is a fork of the SBackup project, the Simple Backup suite. nssbackup is basically using the same technology that Unix administrators have been used for decades but it adds some some intelligence for interaction with users within a graphical interface.

I’ve tried a lot of backup software for Ubuntu, but none was quite right for what i had in mind: simple interface, the ability to select the folders which to backup, auto backup, simple restore to a selected date and most important: to backup only the changed files and folders if a previous backup with the same files and folders already exist. That untill i found Simple Backup.