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Back In Time

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Back In Time is a simple backup tool for Linux, inspired by "FlyBack project".

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  • Free • Open Source

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  • Linux  Gnome/KDE4
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3.3 / 5 Avg rating (3)
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  1.  Incremental Backup
  2.  Schedule Backup
  3.  Time-machine

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  • Developed by

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  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.

  • Rating

    Average rating of 3.3

  • Alternatives

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Our users have written 6 comments and reviews about Back In Time, and it has gotten 51 likes

Back In Time was added to AlternativeTo by danleweb on May 8, 2009 and this page was last updated Dec 17, 2021.

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Top Positive Comment
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Jul 27, 2020
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Works flawless, only thing I'd like to see is a "preview changes" mode, to adjust your ignore-list before actually creating a new snapshot.

Top Negative Comment
Guest
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Oct 15, 2022
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I tried Back in Time on my notbook with MX Linux 21.

I had 2x system freeze when using the program. Could only solved by hard-reset of the notebook.

(Note: MX Linux is running without any problem since several months)

Not recommended!

buhtz
Oct 21, 2024

Do you tried to report the problem. The project is active again since 2022 with a new team of maintainers. https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/tree/dev?tab=readme-ov-file#maintenance-status

buhtz
Oct 21, 2024
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There is a new release candidate for version 1.5.3.

https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/releases/tag/v1.5.3-rc1

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Nov 28, 2021
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Back In Time works well for making backups that are simply copies of files. Super easy to get setup, and no issues since I started using it (about a month ago).

For a long time I was using LuckyBackup for my Linux Mint machine, but it wasn't always reliable. I switched to Deja Dupe, which also works well (does its job) but I really wanted something that made simple backup copies of my files. Back In Time is very similar to LuckyBackup but has proven to be perfectly reliable.

Raf10
Oct 29, 2021
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Backups take up less space (because of using hard links)

camsanders
Apr 18, 2017
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Full featured. Runs on headless server. Very configurable. Good documentation.

What is Back In Time?

Back In Time is a simple backup tool for Linux, inspired by "FlyBack icon FlyBack project".

You only need to specify 3 things:

  • where to save snapshots
  • what folders to backup
  • backup frequency (manual, every hour, every day, every month)

Back In Time is based on rsync icon rsync and uses hard-links to reduce space used for unchanged files. It comes with a Qt5 GUI which will run on both Gnome and KDE based Desktops. Back In Time is written in Python3 and is licensed under GPL2.

Backups are stored in plain text. They can be browsed with a normal file-browser or in Terminal which makes it possible to restore files even without Back in Time. Files ownership, group and permissions are stored in a separate compressed plain text file (fileinfo.bz2). If the backup drive does not support permissions Back in Time will restore permissions from fileinfo.bz2. So if you restore files without Back in Time, permissions could get lost.

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