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}