Back In Time
Back In Time is a simple backup tool for Linux (Gnome & KDE4) inspired by the "flyback project" and "TimeVault". The backup is done by taking snapshots of a specified set of directories. All you have to do is configure: where to save snapshot, what directories to backup, and when a backup should be done (manually, every hour, every day, every week, or every month). It acts as a "user mode" backup system. This means that you can backup and restore only folders to which you have write access.
| Tags | Utilities Archiving backup |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPLv2 |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux |
Recent releases
- 19 May 2009 11:52
Changes: Updated translations, a fix for a bug in the smart-remove algorithm, and a new '--no-check' option for configure scripts. Only the 'folder' term is used, which is more consistent with GNOME/KDE. An 'expert option' was added for enabling and disabling nice for cron jobs. The refresh snapshots button forces the files view to update too. You can now include a backup parent directory (the backup directory will auto-exclude itself). Some small bugs were fixed.
- 07 May 2009 10:17
Changes: Problems with Python strings and QString were fixed. Ctrl-click now just selects a file and does not execute it. A crash after the "take snapshot" process was fixed. Basic permissions are now stored in a special file so they can be restored correctly, even from NTFS. The code was reorganized. 'backintime' is no longer aware of 'backintime-gnome' and 'backintime-kde4' - you need run them explicitly.
- 24 Apr 2009 12:37
Changes: Some translation problems and crashes were fixed. The --safe-links option for saving and restoring was removed. More command line options were added: --snapshots-list, --snapshots-list-path, --last-snapshot, and --last-snapshot-path. The FreeDesktop directories specs are followed. A new installation system used, which makes use of more common steps (./configure; make; sudo make install).
- 06 Apr 2009 14:15
Changes: An important bug in smart remove was fixed and it was made more verbose in syslog.
- 03 Apr 2009 18:12
Changes: This release fixes a crash which occurred in the GNOME files view for files with special characters (e.g.: "a%20b"). For GNOME and KDE4, it renames the "Places" list as "Snapshots", adds root mode menu entries (use gksu for GNOME and kdesudo for KDE), displays a message in the files view if the current directory doesn't exist in the current snapshot, reworks SettingDialog, adds an expert option to enable scheduling automatic backups per directory, shows an error if the application can't find crontab, and adds an option to enable/disable notifications.
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