# &app; Manual

&app; is a simple backup tool for KDE4 desktop.

2008-2009
Oprea Dan, Bart de Koning, Richard Bailey
This manual describes version &appversion; of Back In Time.

## Feedback

To report a bug or make a suggestion regarding the &app; application or this manual, send an email to: bit-team@lists.launchpad.net.

## Introduction

&app; is a simple backup tool for Linux (this is KDE4 version). The backup is done by taking snapshots of a specified set of folders.

All you have to do is:

- configure where to save snapshots

- cofigure what folders to backup

- schedule automatic backup: disabled, every 5 minutes, every 10 minutes, every hour, every day, every week, every month

&app; acts as a "user mode" backup tool. This means that you can backup/restore only folders you have write access to (actually you can backup read-only folders, but you can't restore them).

If you want to run it as root you need to use "sudo -i backintime" (command line) or "backintime-qt_polkit" (GUI).

A new snapshot is created only if something changed since the last snapshot (if any).

A snapshot contains all the files from the selected folders (except for exclude patterns). In order to reduce disk space it use hard-links (if possible) between snapshots for unchanged files. This way a file of 10MiB, unchanged for 10 snapshots, will use only 10Mb on the disk.

When you restore a file 'A', if it already exists on the file system it will be renamed to 'A.backup.currentdate'.

This documentation is not maintained (at least for the moment), please use the man-page 'man backintime'

## About &app;

&app; was written by Oprea Dan (dan@le-web.org), Bart de Koning (bratdaking@gmail.com), Richard Bailey (rmjb@mail.com). To find more information about &app;, please visit the Back In Time Web page.

To report a bug or make a suggestion regarding this application or this manual, sent a mail to bit-team@lists.launchpad.net.

This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public license version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation. A copy of this license can be found in the file LICENSE included with the source code of this program.