Back In Time – easy, schedulable backup utility
April 11, 2009 at 8:49 pm 5 comments
You may have heard about Apple’s Time Machine, or the equivalent Linux desktop backup solutions like TimeVault, FlyBack, rsync, sbackup, and a host other other various solutions.
All are geared for making backup easy, but unfortunately some of them don’t work (sbackup can’t restore) or are unmaintained (TimeVault, FlyBack).
Back in time main window
Enter Back In Time. Available for both Gnome and KDE, it is well-maintained, featuring snapshots, automatic backups, and a Ubuntu & Fedora repositories to install from.
Download: http://backintime.le-web.org
BIT features automatic schedules snapshots, inclusion / exclusion rules, removal of old backups and notifications of a completed update – making it a perfect drop-in replacement for sbackup and FlyBack.
It doesn’t compete yet with TimeVaults history browser functionality – it simply displays the snapshot list organized by weeks on the left side, which is quite good enough.
Entry filed under: linux, ubuntu. Tags: back in time, backintime, backup, flyback, timemachine, timevault, ubuntu.
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Roger | April 12, 2009 at 12:26 pm
What do we add to sources.list?
sudo aptitude install backintimefails – Or is it already under the Ubuntu repositories under another package name?2.
Vadim | April 12, 2009 at 2:13 pm
@roger:
Add
deb http://backintime.le-web.org/repository stable main
and then
sudo apt-get install backintime-common backintime-gnome
Also do the following to add the key:
wget http://backintime.le-web.org/repository/le-web.key
sudo apt-key add le-web.key
3.
Lucas De Marchi | April 13, 2009 at 7:22 pm
What good news!!! It seems awesome!!
After some research I decided to use sbackup, but as I’m lazy and was not so convinced about it, I haven’t configured it yet…
I’m going to give BIT a try.
thanks
4.
Stancja | May 19, 2009 at 9:32 am
I’m not really big on automated backups. If something breaks down you won’t even realise until you need to recover something and realise that you can’t. I’d much rather just take care of all that manualy once a week or so.
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Simón | September 22, 2009 at 7:29 pm
sbackup can’t restore? This is false!!
sbackup is two programs:
1) “simple-backup-config” configures and creates backup manual or/and periodically.
2) “simple-restore-gnome” to restore from backup files.
Also have support for incremental or complete backups, and it compresses backup files to save space.
But BackInTime has a friendly interface.