#Back In Time

Copyright (C) 2008-2016 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 Qt4 GUI 'backintime-qt4' 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. The one in http://backintime.le-web.org is outdated and will not be continued. The new documentation is available in http://backintime.rtfd.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

#####Debian/Ubuntu make packages

./makedeb.sh
sudo dpkg -i ../backintime-common-<version>.deb
sudo dpkg -i ../backintime-qt4-<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
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
  • bindfs

• recomended

  • sshfs
  • encfs

• Command

    cd common
    ./configure
    make
    make test
    sudo make install
  

#####Qt4 GUI

• dependencies

  • x11-utils
  • python3-pyqt4
  • libnotify-bin
  • policykit-1
  • python3-dbus.mainloop.qt
  • backintime-common

• recomended

  • python3-secretstorage or
  • python3-keyring-kwallet or
  • python3-gnomekeyring
  • kompare or
  • meld

• Command

    cd qt4
    ./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 http://feeds.launchpad.net/backintime/announcements.atom

##Contribute

There is a dev-docu on http://backintime-dev.rtfd.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 unittests for new methods in common. To run unittest locally you can run cd common && ./configure && make test

#####Credits

• Francisco Manuel García Claramonte: Spanish translation
• Michael Wiedmann: German translation
• Niklas Grahn: Swedish translation
• Vanja Cvelbar: Slovenian translation
• Michel Corps: French translation
• Tomáš Vadina: Slovak translation
• Paweł Hołuj: Polish translation
• Vadim Peretokin: Russian translation
• translators from Launchpad

_{March 2016}