05 April 2008 19:30
FlyBack - Apples Time Machine for Linux
About
Apple's Time Machine is a great feature in their OS, and Linux has almost all of the required technology already built in to recreate it. This is a simple GUI to make it easy to use.
Website: http://flyback-project.org/
Instructions
To use, make sure you have the following packages installed:
Debian $ sudo apt-get install python python-glade2 python-gnome2 python-sqlite3 rsync
Ubuntu $ sudo apt-get install python python-glade2 python-gnome2 python-sqlite3 python-gconf rsync
Redhat/Fedora $ yum install pygtk2 gnome-python2-gconf pygtk2-libglade python-sqlite3
Then download:
$ svn checkout http://flyback.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ flyback
or
$ wget http://flyback.googlecode.com/files/flyback_0.4.0.tar.gz
$ tar -zxvf flyback_0.4.0.tar.gz
Then change to the new directory ("flyback/src/" or "flyback/", depending on which you chose above) and run:
$ python flyback.py
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