Bonkey (The Backup Monkey)

Bonkey (The Backup Monkey) is an open source backup software available for Windows & Mac platform which can backup files only which match a certain criteria to most of the storage devices. Bonkey has specifically been designed to be used in conjunction with Amazon S3, the guys which provide cheap online storage. You can download the code and change it to your custom need if the necessity so arises. Bonkey allows you to:

• backup to multiple locations, including Amazon S3, SFTP, FTP, Windows shares & even local disks
• backup MS-SQL Server databases
• backup automatically at the scheduled time
• email any errors during backup to your email address
• backup only files that have changed, or a snapshot of the files you select
• compress & encrypt files during backup
• transfer files between different locations using drag & drop
• show built-in help

The most important part with Bonkey is that it runs as a Windows service & there's no need to login for it to start, uses less memory and is invisible. The summary screen shows you all you need to know & makes managing your backup groups easier. Bonkey relies on a lot of third party love, all provided free of charge by their respective developers: Bonkey runs on Java; S3 is run by Amazon; Eclipse provides the application framework and icons; Apache supplies a number of libraries and superconnected604 drew the chain-smoking briefcase bearing primate.

Some of the features of the open source backup software are:

• there's a file transfer mode for easier drag & drop transfers
• you can use synchronisation to remove out of date files from backup targets
• it has a built-in restore wizard to restore to a folder or original file locations