Back In Time
Copyright (C) 2008-2019 Oprea Dan, Bart de Koning, Richard Bailey, Germar Reitze, Taylor Raack
About
Back In Time is a simple backup tool for Linux, inspired by "flyback project".
It provides a command line client 'backintime' and a Qt5 GUI 'backintime-qt'
both written in Python3.
You only need to specify 3 things:
- where to save snapshots
- what folders to backup
- backup frequency (manual, every hour, every day, every month)
Documentation
The documentation is currently under development in https://backintime.readthedocs.org/
Support
Please ask questions and report bug on
https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues
Download
Please find the latest versions on
https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/releases/latest
INSTALL
Back In Time is included in many distributions and can be installed from their
repositories.
Ubuntu PPA
We provide a PPA (Private Package Archive) with current stable version
(ppa:bit-team/stable) and a testing PPA (ppa:bit-team/testing)
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bit-team/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install backintime-qt4
or
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bit-team/testing
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install backintime-qt
Debian/Ubuntu make packages
./makedeb.sh
sudo dpkg -i ../backintime-common-<version>.deb
sudo dpkg -i ../backintime-qt-<version>.deb
ArchLinux
Back In Time is available through AUR. You need to import a public key once
before installing
gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 615F366D944B4826
# Fingerprint: 3E70 692E E3DB 8BDD A599 1C90 615F 366D 944B 4826
wget https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/snapshot/backintime.tar.gz
tar xvzf backintime.tar.gz
cd backintime
makepkg -srci
From sources
Common
-
dependencies
- python3 (>= 3.3)
- rsync
- cron-daemon
- openssh-client
- python3-keyring
- python3-dbus
-
recomended
- sshfs
- encfs
-
Command
cd common ./configure make make test sudo make install
Qt5 GUI
-
dependencies
- x11-utils
- python3-pyqt5
- libnotify-bin
- policykit-1
- python3-dbus.mainloop.pyqt5
- backintime-common
-
recomended
- python3-secretstorage or
- python3-keyring-kwallet or
- python3-gnomekeyring
- kompare or
- meld
-
Command
cd qt ./configure make sudo make install
configure options
first value is default:
--no-fuse-group, --fuse-group (only COMMON)
Some distributions require user to be in group 'fuse' to use
sshfs and encfs. This toggles the check on or off.
--python3, --python (all)
Use either 'python3' or 'python' to start Python Version 3.x
NewsFeed
Back In Time has a RSS feed
https://feeds.launchpad.net/backintime/announcements.atom
Contribute
There is a dev-docu on https://backintime-dev.readthedocs.org
It's not complete yet but I'm working on it. If you'd like to contribute
please add docstrings following the
Google style guide
and add unit-tests for new methods in common. To run unit-test locally you can
run cd common && ./configure && make test
December 2016