fwbackups

fwbackups is a backup program for Linux, published by Stewart Adam. Its stated aim is broad coverage of backup tasks with an interface intended for people who do not want to assemble their own scripts. In practical terms, that places it among the tools used to copy selected files and directories to another location on a schedule, so that a lost or overwritten file can be retrieved from an earlier copy.

The description here rests on packaging metadata, not on running the software, so the specifics are left open: which storage destinations are reachable, whether copies are full or incremental, how restores are performed, and what the retention rules look like are not documented in this entry. Anyone evaluating it for a particular machine or dataset should confirm those points against the project's own documentation.

Only Linux packages are listed, which rules it out as a single tool for a mixed fleet of desktops. The licence is GPL-2.0-or-later, so the source can be inspected, altered and passed on under the same terms — relevant for backup software, where the ability to read the code that writes your archives has practical value.