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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: backup system for KDE
From:       Scott Kitterman <kde () kitterman ! com>
Date:       2013-01-06 2:50:19
Message-ID: 1798404.5p5ZcSHL4O () scott-latitude-e6320
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On Saturday, January 05, 2013 04:55:24 PM Adrien wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am looking for a backup system, well integrated into KDE. MacOS has
> TimeMachine, but for KDE I only found backintime-kde, which is developped
> but not well integrated, and timevault, which is well integrated and very
> promising, but abandonned:
> http://backintime.le-web.org/
> http://blog.chatonka.com/2009/12/timevault-progress-update/
> 
> Before starting anything, I would like to know if people are working on such
> a backup system for KDE.
> 
> The idea is to have an easy way to backup a full KDE session or just folders
> mainly on an external hard drive, but why not on network too (to owncloud
> for instance). The interface should be well integrated into KDE : having
> the configuration in systemsettings, restoring should work directly from
> dolphin, backups should be browseable directly from dolphin, etc. Timevault
> is very close to this.
> 
> If there is no such project, I am interested to start one (or improving an
> existing one), because I can't live without a good backup system, and
> because I want to start to understand how KDE is build, and go deeper than
> the usual user I am now :-)


There is kbackup http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/KBackup?content=44998 
which does most of what you want for backing up.  It doesn't have a restore 
system since it just backs things up as tars which Dolphin/Ark can browse.

Scott K

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