fwbackups

A feature-rich user backup program that allows you to backup your documents on a one-off or recurring scheduled basis.

Note: fwbackups is in maintenance only mode. Development of new features are on hold, and only bugfixes are applied. It requires Python 2 and PyGTK 2 to launch, which recent distributions may no longer include by default. See below for details.

Features

• Simple interface for configuring new backups or restoring documents from a previous backup
• Multiple backup formats: directory copy or tar archive
  • Incremental backup support (directory copy only)
  • Compression (archive format only)
  • Exclude files or folders
• Send backups to remote hosts with SFTP/SSH
• Automatic backup organization and cleanup
• Restore existing backup sets

Platform compatibility

Linux, OS X (lightly tested) and Windows (rarely tested)

User guide

Note: a copy of the user guide is available in HTML and PDF form in the docs/ folder included with a release download of fwbackups.

You can also always view the most recent user guides at the following URL: http://www.diffingo.com/oss/fwbackups/documentation

Building & Installation

Most distributions offer package management systems that make it extremely easy to install additional software packages. If your distribution offers fwbackups in its software repositories, it is recommended you install fwbackups that way instead.

If a package is unavailable for your distribution or if you would like to build from source, please review the [INSTALL.md](installation guide).

Usage

fwbackups installs a menu entry under Applications > System Tools to start the backup administrator, a GUI tool to manage sets or perform one-time backups and restore operations. It can also be started from the CLI:

fwbackups

An existing backup set can be run manually by executing:

fwbackups-run SetName1 SetName2 [...]

To start a one-time backup without an existing set configuration, use:

fwbackups-runonce /src/Path1 /src/Path2 [...] /destination

Execute either command with the --help parameter for full options and usage details.

Translations

Translations are available here - you're welcome to add or correct translations!

Known Issues

Linux-specific

• If you previously installed fwbackups a 1.43.3 release candidate from source (for example on Ubuntu), please remove the /usr/share/fwbackups/fwbackups directory manually before installing 1.43.4.
• An issue was identified in the previous version of fwbackups (1.43.3) where after upgrading, the backup schedule may have been erased. If you have been affected by this problem, simply open the administrator utility and then close it to reschedule all backups.

Windows-specific

• If you have previously installed an older version of fwbackups (ie 1.43.2) and have not upgraded to Python 2.6, it is recommended that you uninstall Python, PyCron and fwbackups and then use the full installer to install fwbackups 1.43.4 from scratch.

Maintenance status

fwbackups is in maintenance mode, and releases will be published for only major bugfixes (or if a new feature is added and tested with a pull request).

Although I would love to keep working on fwbackups, I unfortunately no longer have the free time to give fwbackups the attention that it deserves. I have learned a lot through maintaining fwbackups and want to thank all the users for the support, feature requests, pull requests. I hope that you still find the software useful.

Given the above, the plans around the 1.44 C++ rewrite of fwbackups are also on hold. The cplusplus branch of this repo has a functional, cross-platform Qt4-based UI and cmake build system with limited bindings to boxbackup, but should be considered as abandoned/for reference only.