Perl Backup Projects

Rsnapshot

72 3,073 6.0 Perl

a tool for backing up your data using rsync (if you want to get help, use https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rsnapshot-discuss)

Project mention: Escaping Surveillance Capitalism, at Scale | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-18

Two things I want to try this month are:
https://mastodon.social/@chromakode/110936177254839251
https://rsnapshot.org/

btrbk

79 1,520 6.7 Perl

Tool for creating snapshots and remote backups of btrfs subvolumes

Project mention: I accidentally programmed my server to back up all files... even backups | /r/programminghorror | 2023-05-20

That's still easier using snapshots and something like btrbk. Snapshot the directory at start, prune if there are too many snapshots (or snapshots get too old).

InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).