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<title>&app; Manual</title>
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<para>&app; is a simple backup tool for KDE4 desktop.</para>
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<year>2008-2009</year>
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<holder>Oprea Dan</holder>
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<releaseinfo>This manual describes version &appversion; of Back In Time.
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<title>Feedback</title>
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<para>To report a bug or make a suggestion regarding the &app; application or
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<ulink url="mailto:dan@le-web.org" type="mailto">dan@le-web.org</ulink>.
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<!-- ============= Introduction ============================== -->
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the application is and what it does. -->
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<sect1 id="backintime-introduction">
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<title>Introduction</title>
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<para>&app; is a simple backup tool for Linux (this is KDE4 version). The backup is done by taking snapshots of
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a specified set of directories.</para>
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<para>All you have to do is:</para>
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<listitem><para>configure where to save snapshots</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>cofigure what directories to backup</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>schedule automatic backup: disabled, every 5 minutes, every 10 minutes, every hour, every day, every week, every month</para></listitem>
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<para>&app; acts as a "user mode" backup tool. This means that you can backup/restore only folders
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you have write access to (actually you can backup read-only folders, but you can't restore them).</para>
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<para>If you want to run it as root you need to use "su" (command line), "gksu" (Gnome) or "kdesudo" (KDE).</para>
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<para>A new snapshot is created only if something changed since the last snapshot (if any).</para>
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<para>A snapshot contains all the files from the selected directories (except for exclude patterns).
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In order to reduce disk space it use hard-links (if possible) between snapshots for unchanged files.
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This way a file of 10Mb, unchanged for 10 snapshots, will use only 10Mb on the disk.</para>
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<para>When you restore a file 'A', if it already exists on the file system it will be renamed to
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'A.backup.currentdate'.</para>
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<sect1 id="backintime-getting-started">
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<title>Getting Started</title>
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<para>You can start &app; in the following ways:</para>
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<term><guimenu>Applications</guimenu> menu</term>
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<guisubmenu>System</guisubmenu>
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<guimenuitem>Back In Time</guimenuitem>
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</menuchoice>. </para>
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<term>Command line</term>
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<para>To start &app; from a command line, type the following command, then
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press <keycap>Return</keycap>:</para>
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<para><command>backintime [--gnome | --kde4] [ [--snapshots] path | --backup | --backup-job |
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--snapshots-list | --snapshots-list-path | --last-snapshot | --last-snapshot-path |
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--help | --version | --license]</command></para>
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<para>--gnome - use GNOME GUI (if installed)</para>
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<para>--KDE4 - use KDE4 GUI (if installed)</para>
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<para>path - go directly to the specified file or directory.
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If the application is already running if pass the path to the running instance.
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If the main window is not the only window (there is already a dialog) the parameter is ignored.</para>
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<para>-s, --snapshots - go directly to the specified file or directory and
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show snapshots dialog.
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If the application is already running if pass the path to the running instance.
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If the main window is not the only window (there is already a dialog) the parameter is ignored.</para>
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<para>-b, --backup - take a snapshot now (if needed).</para>
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<para>--backup-job - take a snapshot (if needed) depending on schedule rules (used for cron jobs).</para>
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<para>--snapshots-path - display the path where is saves the snapshots (if configured).</para>
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<para>--snapshots-list - display the list of snapshot IDs.</para>
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<para>--snapshots-list-path - display the path to snapshots.</para>
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<para>--last-snapshot - display last snapshot ID.</para>
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<para>--last-snapshot-path - display the path to the last snapshot.</para>
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<para>-h, --help - display a small help and exit.</para>
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<para>-v, --version - display the version and exit.</para>
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<para>--license - show license and exit.</para>
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<!-- =========== Main Window ============================== -->
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<sect1 id="backintime-mainwindow">
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<title>Main Window</title>
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<title>Main Window</title>
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<para>The <application>Back In Time</application> main window contains the following elements:</para>
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<term>Main toolbar</term>
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<listitem><para>Take a new snapshot (if neccesary)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Update snapshots list</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Edit selected snapshot's name</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Remove selected snapshot</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Settings dialog</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>About dialog</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Help</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Quit</para></listitem>
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<term>Files toolbar</term>
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<listitem><para>Go to parent directory</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Current path</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Show/Hide hidden (.*) and backup (*.~) files</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Restore current file/directory</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Copy current file/directory</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Snapshots: show all snapshots for current the file/directory</para></listitem>
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<term>Snapshots list</term>
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<para>Navigate between 'now' and snapshots</para>
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<term>Places list</term>
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<para>Quickly navigate to special folders: home, root, bookmarks and directories to backup</para>
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<term>Files list</term>
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<para>Navigate through the file system at the moment specified in snapshots list.</para>
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<para>You can sort the files (by clicking on column headers):</para>
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<listitem>by name (folders always first)</listitem>
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<listitem>by size</listitem>
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<listitem>by date</listitem>
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<para>If you click/double-click a file it will be opened using KDE4 file association. Keep in mind that snapshots are 'readonly'.</para>
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<para>If you click/double-click a directory it will go to that directory.</para>
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<title>Settings Dialog</title>
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<para>When the application starts for the first time (not configured yet) this dialog is
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displayed automaticaly.</para>
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<guimenuitem>General</guimenuitem>
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<title>Settings Dialog: General</title>
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<para>Where to save snapshots.</para>
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<para>You can schedule automatic backups:</para>
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<listitem>disabled</listitem>
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<listitem>every 5 minutes</listitem>
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<listitem>every hour</listitem>
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<listitem>every day</listitem>
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<listitem>every month</listitem>
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<para>Automatic backup use cron jobs so cron must be running.</para>
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<guimenuitem>Include</guimenuitem>
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<title>Settings Dialog: Include</title>
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<para>Define the directories you want to backup.</para>
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<guimenuitem>Exclude</guimenuitem>
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<title>Settings Dialog: Exclude</title>
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<para>For include directories you can exclude some files and directories.</para>
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<para>You can specifiy them directly or using patterns.</para>
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<guimenuitem>Auto-Remove</guimenuitem>
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<title>Settings Dialog: Auto-Remove</title>
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<para>You can automatically remove snapshots older then a specific date or if the free space is
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less then a specified value.</para>
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<para>Smart remove allow you to reduce the number of snapshots using the following rules:</para>
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<listitem>keep all snapshots from today and yesterday</listitem>
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<listitem>keep one snapshot for the last week and one for two weeks ago</listitem>
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<listitem>keep one snapshot per month for all previous months of this year</listitem>
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<listitem>keep one snapshot per year for all previous years</listitem>
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<para>By default it does not remove named snapshots.</para>
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<guimenuitem>Options</guimenuitem>
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<title>Settings Dialog: Options</title>
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<para>Enable notifications: if there is an error while taking a snapshot it will display a notification popup.</para>
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<title>Settings Dialog: Expert Options</title>
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second column ('Schedule'). This column allow you to specify the schedule per directory.</para>
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<title>Snapshots Dialog</title>
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<para>Show all snapshots for a specific file or directory.</para>
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<title>Snapshots Dialog</title>
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<para>Click/Double-click an item in the snapshots list to open it with KDE4 file associations.</para>
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<listitem>Jump to: close the dialog an go to the selected snapshot in the main window</listitem>
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<listitem>Copy the item to clipboard</listitem>
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<listitem>Restore it (only for snapshots)</listitem>
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<para>You can compare two different snapshots.
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<title>Known Bugs and Limitations</title>
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<title>About &app;</title>
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<para> &app; was written by Oprea Dan
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&app;, please visit the
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<ulink url="http://backintime.le-web.org" type="http">Back In Time Web
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page</ulink>. </para>
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