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BitCurator

BitCurator is a toolkit for digital forensics, archiving, and digital curation. It assembles best-of-breed open source tools for data triage, forensic disk imaging, file system analysis, location of PII (private and individually identifying information), and export of metadata. Libraries and archives can use this toolkit to support an ingestion workflow for new digital content. BitCurator also...

https://bitcurator.net/bitcurator
Dar

Dar is a backup and archiving utility with a particular emphasis on correctness and precision. Unlike archiving tools that only replicate file contents, Dar works to exactly recreate hardlinked files, extended attributes of various types, macOS resource forks, file sparseness, and a variety of other file attributes. Dar also takes steps to work correctly when backing up a live filesystem (one that...

http://dar.linux.free.fr/
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Toucan

Toucan is a portable application built to synchronize, backup, and encrypt data. Portable applications are designed to run from an external device (USB stick, iPod, etc.) rather than needing to be installed on a system. Toucan includes five synchronization modes (copy, mirror, equalize, move, and clean) that can be combined with a number of checks to reduce the amount of copying. Archive files can...

https://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/toucan