A good KDE4 Backup Application

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stephenmac7 Registered Member Posts 28 Karma 0 OS	A good KDE4 Backup Application Thu Oct 27, 2011 3:42 pm Basically, it would be a clone of Deja Dup, using Duplicity but it would be written using KDE libraries and QT. It would also be nice for it to integrate into owncloud.
Moult Global Moderator Posts 663 Karma 2 OS	A good KDE4 Backup Application Fri Oct 28, 2011 12:33 pm Have you considered: Back in time http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Ba ... ent=104233 Luckybackup http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/lu ... tent=94391 Note that there is also a reason there aren't that many backup frontends for Linux systems - because backups should be reliable - adding extra dependencies for a GUI (unless simply as a client connecting to a daemon) means that should X go down, the backups also go down. I would personally recommend dumping duplicity, rsync, rsnapshot, or any backup solution in a cron file and leaving it at that. Moult, proud to be a member of KDE forums since 2008-Oct. thinkMoult - source for tech, art, and animation: hilarity and interest ensured! WIPUP.org - a unique system to share, critique and track your works-in-progress projects.
stephenmac7 Registered Member Posts 28 Karma 0 OS	A good KDE4 Backup Application Fri Oct 28, 2011 12:37 pm Both were not configurable enough, nor did Back in time work without extensive debugging. I have no idea how to use duplicity, nor rsync. I have not found a good document on it. Also, it seems that Back in time can create a cron job with only an rsync command. The reason I thought the duplicity frontend would be nice is because I wanted to upload my backups to rackspace cloud files
Moult Global Moderator Posts 663 Karma 2 OS	A good KDE4 Backup Application Fri Oct 28, 2011 12:43 pm Not configurable enough is true - and will be true for every single backup frontend out there. It's just like why there are very few frontends for ffmpeg - there are just too many options. I will approve the idea, but highly recommend you read a few guides online on how to do it via command line. Moult, proud to be a member of KDE forums since 2008-Oct. thinkMoult - source for tech, art, and animation: hilarity and interest ensured! WIPUP.org - a unique system to share, critique and track your works-in-progress projects.
stephenmac7 Registered Member Posts 28 Karma 0 OS	A good KDE4 Backup Application Fri Oct 28, 2011 1:38 pm Right, I understand why ffmpeg has not enough frontends... also, could you link to a guide on how to do it via the command line?
Moult Global Moderator Posts 663 Karma 2 OS	A good KDE4 Backup Application Fri Oct 28, 2011 9:53 pm Here you go: top three links on a "rsync tutorial" search on Google. http://everythinglinux.org/rsync/ http://blog.sillica.com/2009/03/11/quic ... -to-rsync/ http://www.my-guides.net/en/content/view/87/26/ If you want 2-way syncing, you may want to look at unison instead of rsync. If you want timeline-esque staged backups, check out rsnapshot. rsnapshot is simply a wrapper script above rsync which maintains timestamped directories in the past. This can be replicated with a simple script. ... and of course, always man rsync Moult, proud to be a member of KDE forums since 2008-Oct. thinkMoult - source for tech, art, and animation: hilarity and interest ensured! WIPUP.org - a unique system to share, critique and track your works-in-progress projects.