Back In Time

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

License

Free

Supported Platforms 1 note on Back In Time's platform support

Linux

Link to official Back In Time site

Official Website

Features

Backup Incremental backup Add a feature

Category

Backup & Sync

Tags

file-backup snapshot time-machine

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Screenshots

Back In Time was added by danleweb in May 2009 and the latest update was made in Apr 2020. There is a history of all activities on Back In Time in our Activity Log. It's possible to update the information on Back In Time or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.