backintime.md

Back In Time

Warning

This guide is INCOMPLETE and this software is not necessarily endorsed!

Description

It is an easy-to-use backup tool for files and folders. It runs on GNU Linux and provides a command line tool backintime and a Qt5 GUI backintime-qt both written in Python3.

Directory

• Back In Time
  • Description
  • Directory
  • References
  • Setup
    • Description
    • References
    • Steps

References

• Back In Time

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Setup

Description

This details how to install and setup Back In Time as a backup solution used with a Samba share.

References

• Enable symlink following
• Unable to start backup

Steps

1. Install the backintime package using yay.

2. Install the encfs package using yay for enabling encryption.

3. Enable symlink following to our Samba share.

   Create a /etc/samba/smb.conf file:

   sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf

   Add the following lines to the smb.conf configuration file:

   [global]
   follow symlinks = yes
   wide links = yes
   unix extensions = no