Software Map

toast is a simple package manager for Unix. It
automatically locates and downloads source code,
determines how to compile it, installs each
package in its own directory tree, and makes the
resulting binaries available through an encap/GNU
stow-like symlink tree. It also supports binary
packages. It is often used to install and manage
software in a non-root user's home directory.

File-Dir-Dumper is a CPAN module that serializes
the metadata (file names, file sizes, permissions,
mtimes, etc.) from a directory structure to a
stream of JSON data structures. The output format
aims to be machine-readable, and mostly
human-readable.

CD Bake Oven is a user-friendly, full-featured
CDR(W) burning facility with an intuitive and good
looking UI. It is built on top of the well known
'cdrecord', 'mkisofs', 'cdda2wav' and 'cdparanoia'.

flexbackup is a configurable and easy to use Perl-based backup tool, that can backup local files as well as remote machines (using ssh). It allows the backup itself to be made with afio, cpio, tar, dump, star, or pax. It can work with tape drives, on-disk archive files, or on-disk directory trees.

CDRX is a menu-based Perl script designed to help you use your CDRW
with mkisofs and cdrecord to handle ISO creation, CDROM/CDRW device
scans and setup, CDRW blanking, and CDRW burns. It is designed to
supplant the need for an X-based CD burning utility, to provide
features not found in other Unix CD burning programs, and to be easy
for beginners to use.

FastJar is an attempt to create a much faster replacement for Sun's 'jar' utility. Instead of being written in Java, FastJar is written in C and is around 50-100 times faster than its Java counterpart on Linux 2.X systems.

pyReScene is a tool that recreates original RARs by backing up the metadata. It is a port of ReScene .NET to Python. It provides a mechanism for backing up and restoring the metadata from "scene" released RAR files. RAR archive volumes are rebuilt using the stored metadata in the SRR file and the files extracted from the RAR archive. pyReScene consists of multiple related tools: pyReScene Auto to create a complete SRR with one simple command, pyReSample to recreate sample files, and pyReScene Usenet to create SRR files on the fly from Usenet postings. Lots of other small scripts for managing SRR and SRS files are available too.

mbackup is a framework for building backup applications.

MT-write is a binary patch for multi-threaded
writing. It comes in the form of a shared object
that can be preloaded to programs like tar to make
their write operations multi-threaded.
Multi-threaded writing can improve performance on
RAM based filesystems and highly scalable
filesystems with multiple spindles.

J7Z is an alternative 7-Zip GUI. 7-Zip is a high-compression file archiver designed by Igor Pavlov. Use J7Z if you want to: update existing archives quickly; backup multiple folders to a storage location; create or extract protected archives; and lessen effort by using archiving profiles and lists.

Confstore is a configuration backup utility. It scans a system for all recognised configuration files and then stores them in a simple archive. It knows what to scan for by reading a definitions file. Confstore can also restore configuration from backup archives it has previously created.

TCDR is a dialog-based console frontend for mkisofs, cdrecord, cdrdao, mkzftree, cdparanoia, cdda2wav, bladeenc, lame, oggenc, ogg123, mpg123, and sox written in bash.

KDE Disk archiver is a disk-based archiving and
backup utility. It can perform differential
backups, which means that it can quickly store the
differences between a recent full backup and the
current state of your data. An archive browser
easily allows you to view the "table of contents"
of your archive. A sophisticated file filtering
mechanism allows you to select which files and
directories to backup or restore, and which files
to compress. The table of contents can be
extracted from the archive and used as a reference
when making differential backups, which means you
don't need your archive CDs handy to do a
differential backup of the entire filesystem.