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Bakhtiyor
Asked: 2010-11-28 07:53:26 +0800 CST

Automatic backup with Back in Time?

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I have installed Back In Time Backup Application and configured to backup one important folder every day into another folder.

Question.

  1. Does it perform backup operation only when the application is open(or launched)?

  2. Should I launch this application every time I log in to Ubuntu?

  3. If YES, how can I make it to run automatically every time I log in to Ubuntu?

Thank you beforehand.

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    According to the documentation at: http://backintime.le-web.org/documentation/ Back In Time uses cron to schedule the backups, so you should not need to be logged in for the backup to take place.

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  2. If your kernel supports “inotify” and you have the Python scripting language loaded, an interesting alternative for essentially real-time backup of a folder is inosync, a Python script, provided by the author, Benedikt Böhm from Germany (http://bb.xnull.de/). You modify his sample configuration file to point at your source and target folders and inosync runs in the background, using rsync to keep the target updated with changes on the source.

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