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

Platforms

Linux

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Features

Incremental Backup
Schedule Backup
Ad-free
Works Offline
Time-machine

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tuva-hayabi added Backup Client as a feature to Back In Time
23 days ago
tuva-hayabi added Works Offline as a feature to Back In Time
23 days ago
tuva-hayabi added Ad-free as a feature to Back In Time
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marcpope added Back In Time as alternative to BorgBackup Server
7 months ago
rapha added Back In Time as alternative to Arco Backup
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bmus added Back In Time as alternative to BmuS
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Comments and Reviews

Top Positive Comment

sfn6sdf2

★★★★★

Jul 27, 2020

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.

buhtz

CommentOct 21, 2024

There is a new release candidate for version 1.5.3.

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

Guest

★★★★★

Oct 15, 2022

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

CommentOct 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

Review from a new or low-activity account — shown here, but not counted in the app rating.

hansencomputers

★★★★★

Nov 28, 2021

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

CommentOct 29, 2021

Backups take up less space (because of using hard links)

camsanders

CommentApr 18, 2017

Full featured. Runs on headless server. Very configurable. Good documentation.

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What is 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.