Back in Time
Back In Time is a simple backup tool taking inspiration from
FlyBack
and TimeVault.
These applications are in turn inspired by Apple's Time Machine. Time
Machine automatically
saves up-to-date copies of everything such as photos, music, videos,
documents, applications, and settings.
The backup is done by taking snapshots of a
specified set of directories.
Back In Time is a framework for rsync,
diff and cron for the
purpose of taking snapshots and backups of specified folders. It
minimizes disk space use by taking a snapshot only if the directory has
been changed, and hard links for unmodified files if it has. The user
can schedule regular backups using cron.
There are two graphical user interface to choose from for your
desktop environment, either GNOME
or KDE
v4 based.
Back in Time is superior to both FlyBack
and TimeVault
as it has a more intuitive graphical user interface. Furthermore, the
software
seamlessly rewrites all of the underlying rsync
commands in plain English.
Back in Time can be integrated with Nautilus
using nautilus-actions.
Back in Time 1.0.8
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Price
Free to download
Size
0.2MB
License
GNU GPL v2
Developer
Oprea Dan and contributors (for translations)
Website
backintime.le-web.org
System Requirements
GNOME or KDE 4 (4.1 or higher)
Python
rsync
cron
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Features include:
- Simplicity itself. Simply configure the following:
- The location to save the snapshot
- Select which directories to backup
- The frequency of the backup (manual, every hour/day/week
or month)
- Enable schedule per included folder
- Exclude patterns, files or folders
- Auto-remove if older than a set number of days/weeks/years,
or if free space is less than a specified amount
- Smart remove functionality:
- Keep all snapshots from today and yesterday
- Keep one snapshot for the last week and one for two weeks
ago
- Keep one snapshot per month for all previous months of
this year
- Keep one snapshot per year for all previous years
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Last Updated Thursday, February 09 2012 @ 02:21 PM EST
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