Back In Time is a simple backup solution for Linux Desktops. It 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.
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1.4.302 Feb 2024 02:50
minor bugfix:
* Feature: Exclude 'SingletonLock' and 'SingletonCookie' (Discord) and 'lock' (Mozilla Firefox) files by default (part of #1555)
* Work around: Relax `rsync` exit code 23: Ignore instead of error now (part of #1587)
* Feature (experimental): Add new snapshot log filter `rsync transfer failures (experimental)` to find them easier (they are normally not shown as "error").
This feature is experimental because it is based on hard-coded error message strings in the rsync source code
and may possibly not find all rsync messages or show false positives.
* Fix bug: 'qt5_probing.py' hangs when BiT is run as root and no user is logged into a desktop environment (#1592 and #1580)
* Fix bug: Launching BiT GUI (root) hangs on Wayland without showing the GUI (#836)
* Improve: Launcher for BiT GUI (root) does not enforce Wayland anymore but uses same settings as for BiT GUI (userland) (#1350)
* Fix bug: Disabling suspend during taking a backup ("inhibit suspend") hangs when BiT is run as root and no user is logged into a desktop environment (#1592)
* Change of semantics: BiT running as root never disables suspend during taking a backup ("inhibit suspend") even though this may have worked before in BiT
1.4.129 Dec 2023 11:08
major bugfix:
Dependency: Add "qt translations" to GUI runtime dependencies (#1538)
Build: Unit tests do generically ignore all instead of well-known warnings now (#1539).
Build: Warnings about missing Qt translation now are ignored while testing (#1537).
Fix bug: GUI didn't start when "show hidden files" button was on (#1535).
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