Veeam Agent: Reliable, Image-Based Backups for Workstations and Servers Some backup tools handle files. Others go for full system images. Veeam Agent is very much in the second camp — designed to back up everything from a single workstation to a full-blown production server, block by block.

Originally an add-on to the broader Veeam ecosystem, it has since become a powerful standalone tool — especially for Windows environments, though Linux is also supported. Whether it’s a bare-metal restore, s

Zmanda — Backup That Just Does Its Job (And Then Gets Out of the Way) Good backups aren’t loud. They don’t demand dashboards or keep pinging your phone. They just run — and restore when needed. That’s pretty much the whole philosophy behind Zmanda. It doesn’t try to reinvent anything. No “next-gen” claims. Just plain, scriptable, network-wide backups for real environments — with messy machines, old file servers, and the occasional user who dumps everything on their desktop.

Vorta: Set-and-Forget Backups for Workstations with Borg Under the Hood Workstation backups are either too clunky or too manual. Scripts break, cronjobs get forgotten, and GUIs often hide what’s actually going on. Vorta steps in as a front-end for BorgBackup, making encrypted, deduplicated, versioned backups not just possible — but painless.

It’s not trying to be enterprise-grade. It’s not designed for hundreds of machines or multi-tenant control panels. What it does offer is a reliable way for

Amanda: Classic Backup That Still Knows Its Job Before backup became a cloud service with a subscription model, there was Amanda — short for “Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver.” And while it may not come with sleek dashboards or marketing slogans, it’s still one of the most trusted, scriptable, and storage-efficient backup solutions in the UNIX world.

Amanda isn’t flashy. It’s a command-line-first tool built to handle large-scale tape and disk-based backups across multiple machi