Afbackup's power lies in its immense flexibility. Do you have a linux system at home, and want to make simple weekly backups of this single system onto your CD-burner? Do you also want to include certain directories from your spouse's Windoze based system in this backup?
Or do you manage a complex installation of hundreds of computers that include several different types of backup devices? Are these backup devices connected to different backup computers? Do you want to make your backups over the network as efficient as possible? Afbackup is the opensource answer to these scenarios and several others.