Back In Time Reviews

Social recommendations and mentions

• looking for a project

  Back In Time is a project born round about the year 2008. A rsync-based backup software with a GUI for Linux. It seems that there is a new team of maintainers reanimating the project with support from the previous maintainer. It looks like it is on a good way. - Source: Reddit / 3 months ago

• Main differences/pros/cons between LVM snapshots and Timeshift snapshots? What software would you use to backup /home?

  The Timeshift developers recommend that users who want backups should look at something like backintime, because Timeshift is not a backup application. - Source: Reddit / 4 months ago

• I broke my system and I want to reinstall it but without losing /home

  If it's on another partition and you select that partition during installation, it should be OK. However, always make a backup of your Home folder/partition to an external drive. I recommend using Back In Time. - Source: Reddit / 8 months ago

• franken-kde-neon? :D

  Well, that certainly explains it. I read a post a while ago where a KDE dev said it's impossible to turn Neon into Kubuntu and vice versa, so this would apply to Ubuntu, too. You could just try things as they are (Franken-Neon), or, if you decide to jump to Neon proper, you should backup your Home folder (be sure to back up your hidden files and folders, too, a.k.a. Dotfiles and dot folders), and if you've... - Source: Reddit / 8 months ago

• General tips for Debian-newbie?

  People need to stop recommending rsync for backups. Some reasonable, time-tested software suggestions are Back In Time, Borg+Vorta, and my minimal CLI choice, rdiff-backup. - Source: Reddit / 11 months ago

• What are you doing for your backups?

  I use backintime to back up files in my home directory, and use Timeshift for backing up system settings (really useful if you're messing around with your grub and fuck something up, speaking from experience). - Source: Reddit / 11 months ago

• Best and easiest way to backup?

  I use BackInTime for userspace backups, Timeshift for system files. - Source: Reddit / about 1 year ago

• how to recover from a broken OS?

  My own backup routine is a complete system backup before and after any major Manjaro update, along with incremental backups every night. With backintime automatically taking snapshots of selected files & directories (mainly in my home directory) every 15 minutes to secure most stuff in areas where I might be making changes. - Source: Reddit / about 1 year ago

• i'm about to replace Ubuntu with Kubuntu

  From my understanding, this isn't a good idea. Technically, you could install the KDE desktop, then uninstall the GNOME DE, but this would likely muck u your system with leftovers and unwanted crap. Best to make a backup of your home folder with something like BackInTime, then do a fresh install of Kubuntu. You can install your programs and then restore your home folder. - Source: Reddit / about 1 year ago

• What program do you use for backup /home folders?

  I have LM 19.3 on my main driver, and on it I use Back In Time - I use the older repo version instead of adding the PPA. It the past I have used the MintBackup (aka, Backup Tool) and Déjà Dup (aka, Backup). MintBackup is my least favorite, but I like all three. I use Déjà Dup on my LM 20.x boxes. I am pretty sure all or front-ends for rsync, and all should work with your NAS. Https://github.com/bit-team/backintime. - Source: Reddit / about 1 year ago

• Personal Ubuntu laptop backup solution

  For simple, local backups on a personal machine, my favorite is Back in Time, which I've relied on for years. I've also used DejaDup, which is Ubuntu's preinstalled backup software. It's fine. - Source: Reddit / over 1 year ago

• Using Timeshift on Pop OS 21.04 with System-d

  Time shift is great for system files, but not great for other types. BackInTime is what I use for personal files. Works great. - Source: Reddit / over 1 year ago

• Recommend Backup Solution For Data

  Anything based on rsync will do fine. E.g. BackInTime: https://github.com/bit-team/backintime. - Source: Reddit / almost 2 years ago

• Want to install Pop OS to my laptop, should I wait and fresh install Pop OS 21.04 or go ahead with 20.10 and update later?

  For Pop OS I use Timeshift for backing up my /root/ directory and I use Back In Time for backing up my /home/ directory. - Source: Reddit / almost 2 years ago

• Happy BackUp day! How often do you make full backups of your system?

  You sure?i use it all the time. Https://github.com/bit-team/backintime. - Source: Reddit / almost 2 years ago

• What are some of the dumb mistakes you made that broke Arch?

  Regarding mistake nr. 3: Get a second drive (even an old HDD suffices) and check out https://github.com/bit-team/backintime. This can save you from sweating whenever you run `rm` commands :). - Source: Reddit / about 2 years ago