Comments on: Back In Time - A Simple backup tool for ubuntu

By: Kino Velez

Kino Velez — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:40:38 +0000

I had been looking for something like this as the No So Simple backup does not do incremental. Almost a year later is this till the best way to do this or is there another preferred application.

By: qnob

qnob — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:29:52 +0000

I’m pleased to share my callback script for backing up MYSQL with backintime. I also backup the currently installed packages:

#!/bin/sh
## http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1334287

case “$1″ in
1)echo “Backup starting”
mysqldump --user=mythtv --password=mythtv mythconverg > /root/backup/mythdb.sq
l
/root/bin/dpkg-backup.sh /root/backup/dpkg-list.txt
;;
2)echo “Backup finishing”
;;
3)echo “Backup completed for ${2} ${3}”
;;
4)echo “An error occurred:”

case “$2″ in
1)echo “Application not configured”;;
2)echo “Process already running”;;
3)echo “Can’t find directory”;;
4)echo “A snapshot for ‘now’ already exists”;;
esac
;;
esac

By: Roberto

Roberto — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:29:35 +0000

How to backup MySQL data?

By: Blaine

Blaine — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:12:26 +0000

Excellent, thanks to everyone for the help.

I’ve recently come from Vista, and (ideally) want a Linux version of “System Restore” - does anybody have any advice about which system/registry folders are worth keeping backups of?

Thanks a million!
Blaine

By: jordanwb

jordanwb — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:19:08 +0000

Does this create a single file or does it simply copy the files?

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:41:18 +0000

@Gemma

Linux is a time consuming operating system. That said, the above steps aren’t too hard to follow, and if anything will teach you a little about the operating system you’re using.

You just need to get to grips with the terminal window, then cutting and pasting commands is very easy.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:39:15 +0000

@Paul

It does the exact opposite of what you’re saying.

BackInTime uses hard linking to reduce duplication. In essence it only backs up the changes. All the other unchanged files are there, but are hard linked back to the original hence no extra disk space is taken.

It’s all on the BackInTime website:

“In order to reduce disk space it use hard-links (if possible) between snapshots for unchanged files. This way a file of 10Mb, unchanged for 10 snapshots, will use only 10Mb on the disk.”

By: Gemma Laming

Gemma Laming — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 06:56:50 +0000

Is there a simple back-up system that will (a) download onto Ubuntu and (b) install on Ubuntu. I can find neither!

I had hoped Linux would be a little easier to use than it has turned out to be. Everything I try does not work, and needs a great deal of computer knowledge to install. I find it very difficult and wastes a great deal of time.

Gemma

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:30:06 +0000

I like the program, but I advise everyone to use Deja Dup instead. Yes, the interface of Back in Time is really good, but the way it backups is not really good. Back in Time creates a copy of the backup folder every time you backup. If that folder is around 100MB, every time you run a backup, you need another 100MB. (At least that is how it worked out for me. I have a MyPassword with NTFS.).

Deja Dup (in Ubuntu repos) on the other hand backups “smart”. It only saves the changes you have made. So if you add a 5MB file and backup, the backup will only be 5MB.

I hope this helps for some of you!

PS: How to install:
sudo apt-get install deja-dup

By: Mark Preston

Mark Preston — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:24:56 +0000

Finally an iteration of RSTP/Gnome that doesn’t tell me I need gksudo to run it. Hooray!! Will somebody please tell me how this program “restores” the /home I’ve backed-up in case of catastrophic disk failure? Do I get a new disk or re-format the OS, add Back-in-Time, set the restore point as the backed-up directory and click: Restore?

By: Qnop

Qnop — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:49:29 +0000

hello,

It looks like a great tool, however, I’m been using a similar tool called “Simple Backup” out of ubuntu distribution. The installation is as simple as :

apt-get install sbackup

The screens are quit similar. At the first glance, flash back has a nicer browser for the snapshots.

Though, it would be interesting to compare those tools. I’d glad if somebody can point me out any such resources.

Anyway, I think “Simple Backup” is simpler, but I don’t need more than that. And I prefer having no external sources, if it’s possible.

By: cyberfux

cyberfux — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:46:26 +0000

Hey there!

Thanks for your tutorial, it was exactly what i was looking for

Would you mind if i translate it into german and post it to my blog & wiki?

Cyberfux

By: Azerthoth

Azerthoth — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:24:57 +0000

conor, and if one is not using a garden object as a desktop environment? The different paths needed just make listing every possible permutation a serious pita, and even more confusing. The command line on the other hand is the same regardless of DE.

By: TK

TK — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:28:10 +0000

The reason that we Linux users often recommend shell commands is that they’re a lot harder to screw up. If one copies and pastes the commands as they are, it’s not that difficult. If you go through the whole “visual” way of doing it, you may as well create a video tutorial, because it’s just too complicated, there are just too many steps to undergo. In terminal, it’s simple and fast.

By: conor

conor — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:32:52 +0000

OK, the install procedure you have outlined is EXACTLY the kind that a new user would have problems with. Isn’t Ubuntu meant to be user friendly?

What is the problme with telling a user to click on System > Administration > Software sources, click on “add key” and add that line “deb http://le-web.org/repository stable main” and the GPG key.

Go to Add/Remove and search “Back in time”. double click and install?

By: Andi Bauer

Andi Bauer — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:27:41 +0000

Thanks a lot this post, I heard years ago that something like TimeVault existed in Linux, too, but never found it. This is exactly the right program for my - formerly Mac using - girlfriend

By: krul

krul — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:14:49 +0000

This is really awesome! I don’t know why it is not installed by default.

The best is that you don’t need the tool itself to go back in time…you just browse the file system.