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  1. jferrer  on September 20th, 2009

    Thanks a lot Dan, this is exactly the type of tool I was wishing to have in Linux.

    Unfortunately it’s not working for me on Ubuntu Hardy. When I try to do a backup it prints the following logs:

    rsync: -aEAX: unknown option
    rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(1318) [client=2.6.9]

    Looking at the rsync manual it seems the version in hardy (2.6.9-6ubuntu2) doesn’t have the option -X yet. I’ve searched through the options of Back In Time just in case there was a checkbox that could be unchecked so that it didn’t use this rsync option with no luck.

    Is this a known problem? Is there any way to work around it?

  2. windstory  on September 27th, 2009

    I could not run backintime at centos 5.3 after installing.

    [root:localhost:/_hanwork/_download/backintime-0.9.26/common]# backintime
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File “./backintime.py”, line 27, in ?
    import snapshots
    File “/_hanwork/_download/backintime-0.9.26/common/snapshots.py”, line 35, in ?
    import pluginmanager
    File “/_hanwork/_download/backintime-0.9.26/common/pluginmanager.py”, line 51
    class PluginManager():
    ^
    SyntaxError: invalid syntax

  3. FokkerCharlie  on September 29th, 2009

    This is crakcing stuff, really what the doctor ordered.

    Just a couple of points:

    - Do you think it would be possible to have a tree and checkbox type interface for folder selection? The current include/exclude method works, but it’s not as easy to use as it might be. I guess this isn’t straightforward to implement, but I thought I’d chirp anyhoo.

    - Getting a differences report takes a long time, with lots of memory use and CPU load. I guess this is an artefact of the backend.

    - When I click restore, it seems to do the right thing, but it would be nice to have some feedback- perhaps in the bottom of the window frame (can’t remember what it’s called) where other info appears- eg ‘Working…’.

    Many thanks for a great utility, it is already operational on my setup.

    Cheers!
    Charlie

  4. dan  on October 15th, 2009

    From Software Sources you can check “Unsupported updates” and update rsync.

  5. dan  on October 15th, 2009

    Hi,

    It does not dereference them, it include them as symlinks.
    Some people seems to have symlinks to the root so it is better this way.

    Regards,
    Dan

  6. mzanetti  on October 18th, 2009

    Hi! Looks nice! However, I have the problem that if rsync exits with an error (e.g. the backup disk gets disconnected), backintime hangs and rsync becomes a zombie. I have to kill backintime to end the zombie and be able to re-schedule backups.

    I think the problem is in snapshots.py in line 890. The readline() doesn’t return any more. However I have no experience with python so I’m not really sure.

    Another problem is, that BackInTime uses the “@hourly” syntax for scheduling cron jobs. This is not supported by all cron daemons (dcron for example) and will fail on distributions using dcron (e.g. ArchLinux). The solution would be to use traditional cron syntax when scheduling jobs.

    Cheers

  7. hizoka  on October 25th, 2009

    Error with the ppa :

    backintime common : 0.9.26-3

    but

    backintime-kde4 : Depends: x11-utils, kdesudo, python-kde4 (>= 4.1), backintime-common (= 0.9.26)

    it’s impossible to install it because the version of backintime-common are different

    Resolve :
    backintime-kde4 : Depends: x11-utils, kdesudo, python-kde4 (>= 4.1), backintime-common (>= 0.9.26)

    thank you for this software.

    Sorry for my english, I’m french guy.

  8. arjay  on October 31st, 2009

    HI – BackInTime ran fine with Jaunty (Kubuntu 9.04) but I cannot install in Kubuntu 9.10 (Karmic). I get unmet dependencies:

    richard@galaxy:~$ sudo apt-get install backintime-common backintime-kde4
    Some packages could not be installed.

    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    backintime-kde4: Depends: backintime-common (= 0.9.26) but 0.9.26-3 is to be installed
    E: Broken packages

    Can you help?

  9. arjay  on November 1st, 2009

    re my last post. Also tried the deb package from your site. Same unmet dependencies.

    Also tried source package but got these errors:

    richard@galaxy:~/downloads/backintime-0.9.26/kde4$ ./configure
    All OK. Now run:
    make
    sudo make install
    richard@galaxy:~/downloads/backintime-0.9.26/kde4$ make
    make: Nothing to be done for `all’.
    richard@galaxy:~/downloads/backintime-0.9.26/kde4$ sudo make install
    #install python
    install -d /usr/share/backintime/kde4
    install –mode=644 *.py /usr/share/backintime/kde4
    #install plugin
    install -d /usr/share/backintime/plugins
    install –mode=644 ../plugins/kde4*.py /usr/share/backintime/plugins
    install: cannot stat `../plugins/kde4*.py’: No such file or directory
    make: *** [install] Error 1
    richard@galaxy:~/downloads/backintime-0.9.26/kde4$

  10. User  on November 7th, 2009

    Hi

    I would like to see these features:

    * Incremental backups
    * SSH support

  11. andre  on November 9th, 2009

    Testing Back In Time. It works fine! Very useful tool :-) Thanks.

  12. wavez  on November 18th, 2009

    You need to post in BIG UPPERCASE LETTERS on the home page(!!), for Ubuntu users:

    To enable regularly scheduled backups, go to Applications->Ubuntu Software Center, search for “scheduled tasks”, and install the package, “Scheduled Tasks”.

    Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala does not come with cron pre-installed.

  13. MESKIS  on November 26th, 2009

    Hi,
    on hardy I used 0.9.20 version and it worked with some snapshot display bug (do not refreshed the screen), after update it stopt. I’l will try update rsink and replay the result

  14. MESKIS  on November 26th, 2009

    After updte rsync it work again.

  15. joaomach  on December 1st, 2009

    Is there any future plans to add Amazon S3 support?

    This would make backup on Linux the ultimate!

  16. adriank  on December 28th, 2009

    SSH support would be nice

  17. phowardcom  on December 30th, 2009

    If you use Ubuntu and try to backup your home directory when you have mounted network shares, this tip may be of some help.

    http://phoward.com/blog/2009/12/10/quick-tip-for-ubuntu-back-in-time-users/

    Stops Back in Time trying to back up the mounted shares as well as your home folder.

  18. supertux  on January 17th, 2010

    with Karmic SSH works fine with sshfs as follows:
    1.)xxx@yyy:~$ sudo apt-get install sshfs
    2.)xxx@yyy:~$ sshfs ssh-user@ssh-server:[path] mount-point
    3.) use mount-point as destination

    ciao
    supertux

  19. mattman85  on January 18th, 2010

    does this take into account file permissions? I want to be able to make a backup of my /home, /etc, and /opt folders (and maybe 1 or 2 others), but I know that some programs seem to ignore file permissions, and gives perm only to root.. I think this is the program I’ve been looking for as a backup solution, I just need to know about the permissions. thanks!

  20. dan  on January 19th, 2010

    Please use launchpad to report bugs, ask questions:

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/backintime
    https://answers.launchpad.net/backintime

    Regards,
    Dan

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