dvdbackup is a tool to rip video DVDs from the command line. It has the
advantages of being small, fast, and easy to use.
The dvdisaster project:
dvdisaster provides a margin of safety against data loss on CD and DVD media
caused by aging or scratches.
* dvdisaster creates error correction data to compensate read errors which
are not correctable in the CD/DVD drive.
* dvdisaster tries to read as much data as possible from defective media.
Afterwards unreadable sectors are recovered using the previously created
error correction data. The maximum error correction capacity is
user-selectable.
* dvdisaster operates at the image level and does not depend on the file
system.
If you create the error correction data in time and keep it at a safe place,
you have a good chance of recovering the medium contents from typical read
errors and to transfer your complete data onto a new medium.
CPU is an LDAP user management tool written in C and loosely based
on FreeBSD's pw(8). The goal of CPU is to be a suitable replacement
of the useradd/usermod/userdel utilities for administrators using
an LDAP backend and wishing to have a suite of command line tools
for doing the administration.
The cpulimit program throttles back a process's CPU usage. This allows the
user to slow down jobs that would otherwise choke the processor. It is also
helpful on laptops where we want to avoid generating a lot of heat.
dcfldd is an enhanced version of GNU dd with features useful for forensics
and security.
dcfldd has the following additional features:
- Hashing on-the-fly
- Status output
- Flexible disk wipes
- Image/wipe Verify
- Multiple outputs
- Split output
- Piped output and logs
The fileschanged utility is a client to the FAM (File Alteration Monitor)
server that is now available in some distributions. Here's how the fileschanged
FAM client works: you give it some filenames on the command line and then it
monitors those files for changes. When it discovers that a file has changed
(or has been altered), it displays the filename on the standard-output.
A flexible backup tool
Features:
o Easy to configure
o Uses dump, afio, GNU tar, cpio, pax, or zip archivers
o Full and numbered levels of incremental backup (acts like "dump")
o Compression and buffering options for all backup types
o Does remote filesystems (over rsh/ssh; no special service)
o Can backup only files not owned by rpm, or changed from rpm version
o Writes to tapes, on-disk archive files, or on-disk directory trees
o Keeps a table of contents so you know archives are on each tape
o Nice log files
You can get additional information about remote backup strategies using SSH
at http://www.sysfault.org/flexbackup.html
fnteditfs is a small, simple font editor, designed for editing FreeBSD's
syscons and Linux fonts (but may also work for other OSes). It's written
in C, using the ncurses library for its display library.
This is a port of detox, which is a program that renames files to make them
easier to work with under Unix and related operating systems. Spaces and
various other unsafe characters (such as "$") get replaced with "_". ISO
8859-1 (Latin-1) characters can be replaced as well, as can UTF-8 characters.
Disktype detects the content format of a disk, device, or disk image.
It knows about common file systems, partition tables, and boot codes.