Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20230908
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.7
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.109.0
Qt Version: 5.15.10
Kernel Version: 6.4.12-1-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX with Radeon Graphics
Memory: 30.7 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Graphics
Manufacturer: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
Product Name: MINIPC PN52
Information for package backintime:
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Repository : Pääasennuslähde (OSS)
Name : backintime
Version : 1.3.3-2.1
Arch : noarch
Vendor : openSUSE
Installed Size : 695.4 KiB
Installed : Yes
Status : up-to-date
Source package : backintime-1.3.3-2.1.src
Upstream URL : https://github.com/bit-team/backintime
Summary : Backup tool for Linux inspired by the "flyback project"
Description :
Back In Time is a backup tool for Linux inspired by the "flyback project".
It provides a command line client 'backintime' and a Qt5 GUI 'backintime-qt'
both written in Python3.
You only need to specify 3 things:
* where to save snapshots;
* what folders to backup; and
* backup frequency (manual, every hour, every day, every month).
I installed (zypper in) the backintime program, but it won’t start. I read old messages on this forum, but I didn’t understand if it is possible to still use it.
I made a long explanation about it, but the damn crap interface wasted almost the entire post again. I don’t know how to use it when 90% of what I do in the text is always lost behind some banner.
Back In Time comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `backintime --license’ for details.
WARNING: Failed to connect to Udev serviceHelper daemon via D-Bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown
WARNING: D-Bus message: The name net.launchpad.backintime.serviceHelper was not provided by any .service files
WARNING: Udev-based profiles cannot be changed or checked due to Udev serviceHelper connection failure
raija@kone1:~>
rsync has been around since the dawn of time, is reliable, dependable, fast, predictable, and easy to use.
I briefly read about backintime (out of curiosity), most especially about “known issues”. Personally, I’d avoid it and simply use rsync (which I do, weekly).
3rd party apps that use a known reliable command (as how BIT uses rsync) is simply confirmation that the true underlying command should be preferred.
I installed the package with the zypper in backintime command, but backintimelang and backintime-qt were not installed. I then installed them with Yast.
Make sure that backintime-qt (and backintime-lang) are installed along with backintime. Startup with backintime-qt on commandline seems to work fine in tumbleweed on my system to get backintime gui going.
As you can see all 3 packages are installed.
Then I remove backintime and all three packages are removed.
I install backintime again, but zypper only installs one.
And backintime doesn’t work.
kone1:~ # zypper se backintime
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
S | Name | Summary | Type
---+-----------------+---------------------------------------------------------+--------
i+ | backintime | Backup tool for Linux inspired by the "flyback project" | package
i+ | backintime-lang | Translations for package backintime | package
i+ | backintime-qt | Back In Time Qt5 GUI | package
kone1:~ #
kone1:~ # zypper rm backintime
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...
The following 3 packages are going to be REMOVED:
backintime backintime-lang backintime-qt
3 packages to remove.
After the operation, 1.7 MiB will be freed.
Continue? [y/n/v/...? shows all options] (y): y
(1/3) Removing backintime-lang-1.3.3-2.1.noarch .......................................................................................................[done]
(2/3) Removing backintime-qt-1.3.3-2.1.noarch .........................................................................................................[done]
(3/3) Removing backintime-1.3.3-2.1.noarch ............................................................................................................[done]
kone1:~ # zypper in backintime
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...
The following NEW package is going to be installed:
backintime
1 new package to install.
Overall download size: 158.5 KiB. Already cached: 0 B. After the operation, additional 695.4 KiB will be used.
Continue? [y/n/v/...? shows all options] (y): y
Retrieving: backintime-1.3.3-2.1.noarch (Pääasennuslähde (OSS)) (1/1), 158.5 KiB
Retrieving: backintime-1.3.3-2.1.noarch.rpm .............................................................................................[done (282.0 KiB/s)]
Checking for file conflicts: ..........................................................................................................................[done]
(1/1) Installing: backintime-1.3.3-2.1.noarch .........................................................................................................[done]
kone1:~ # zypper se backintime
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
S | Name | Summary | Type
---+-----------------+---------------------------------------------------------+--------
i+ | backintime | Backup tool for Linux inspired by the "flyback project" | package
| backintime-lang | Translations for package backintime | package
| backintime-qt | Back In Time Qt5 GUI | package
kone1:~ #
Hi karlmistelberger, I tried to install btrbk, but I got a “Not found”. Could you please post the commands for zypper or what to do in YAST so I can try your suggestion? Thanks in advance .
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