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These products back up in the “traditional” way, performing full or incremental backups to one (or more) local (or remote) tape (or optical) drives. See bottom of table for explanations of abbreviations.

Commercial Personal/Desktop Backup Products

(Free backup products are listed in a different directory.)

Products	Vendor	Comments
1safe	Vision Software
Backup Platinum		Backup to CD, DVD, FTP or LAN
BRU Workstation for Linux/Unix	TOLIS Group, Inc.	Backup for stand-alone Linux/Unix systems and home users - no network support.
BRU LE for Mac OS X	TOLIS Group, Inc.	Backup for stand-alone Mac OS X workstations and home users.
BRU Producer's Edition	TOLIS Group, Inc.	BRU Producer's Edition - Backup for the recording industry.
BRU Workstation for Linux/Unix	TOLIS Group, Inc.	Backup for stand-alone Linux/Unix systems and home users with network support.
Crashplan		Backup to your (or a friend's) PC
Jungledisk		Backup to your Amazon S3 account
Handy Backup	Novosoft
NovaBackup	NovaStor
Vembu Personal		Free version backs up to your or friend's PC

Server/Network Backup Products

Products	Vendor	Comments
Amanda Enterprise Edition	Zmanda Inc.	The first commercially-supported open-source backup software
Argentum Backup	Argentum
Arkeia Network Backup	Arkeia Corp
Server backup software - Backup for Workstations	Lockstep	Disk-based Backup For Windows Servers & Workstations
Backup Administrator	Storix	Dedicated mainly to bare metal recoveries
Backup 3000	Orbit	MPE/3000 backup
Backup EDGE	Microlite
Backup Exec	Symantec
Backup Express	SyncSort
BackPack/iX	Roc Software	MPE/3000 backup
BRU Server for Linux/Unix/Mac OS X/Solaris/IRIX	TOLIS Group, Inc.	True Client-Server Architecture for Heterogeneous Networks.
Commvault Galaxy	Commvault
Data Director	Qstar
FDR/Upstream	Innovation Data Products	Backup open systems to mainframe
Harbor Backup	Beta Systems	Backup open systems & mainframe to mainframe
HTBackup	BridgeHead
Lone-Tar	Lone-Star Software
NetBackup	Symantec
Netvault	Bakbone Software
NetWorker	EMC
Data Protector	Hewlett-Packard
Recovery Manager	BMC Software	(formerly SQL-Backtrack)
Retrospect	EMC	(formerly Dantz)
SEP sesam	SEP Software LLC
StorFirst Altus	Seven Ten Storage Software, Inc.
TapeWare	Yosemite Technologies
Time Navigator	Atempo
Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM)	IBM
True incremental Backup System (TiBS)	Teradactyl
Ultrabac	BEI