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Can't reset BackInTime snapshot path

I've been using BackInTime with Ubuntu 12.04. The disk I was saving to is no longer available. BackInTime insists that I bring it back. (It says "Can't find snapshots folder. If it is on a removable drive please plug it and then press OK") No…
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How to move entire Back In Time backup set to new hard drive?

I have backintime storing backups to a hard drive. I'm replacing that hard drive and wish to copy everything from the old drive to the new one. How can I do that, preferably with rsync? I have 600GB data in total and both drives are 2TB capacity, so…
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Restore with back in time after fresh install of ubuntu

I back up my home, which includes a list of installed softwares and PPA, on an external hard drive using back in time. I plan to do a fresh install of ubuntu. Will I then be able to install back in time on the fresh machine, then restore everything…
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Cron jobs show up in GNOME Scheduler but don't execute

I have configured Back In Time and MySQL Administrator to make a backup every day at 15:00. In order to be sure I have installed Gnome Scheduler to see whether these two applications are registered there. They are registered in gnome scheduler but…
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Back in Time won't start

After I accidentally made a computer shutdown during an not finished backup Back in Time wont start again, I also installed and deinstalled some programs using python. Here is the error message I get: frank@VaioVGN-FE21H:~$ backintime-qt4 Back In…
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Error: You can't include a backup sub-folder

BackInTime does not allow me to take snapshots of /home/user/directory and save it in /home/user/backintime/host/user/1. It complains "You can't include a backup sub-folder". I do not see the reason. Is this a bug? N.B. It allows me to save…
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Back In Time lost my backup profiles (ie configuration) -- in GUI only

This seems a bit odd to me. In very short, as noted in the question BackInTime seems to have lost my backup profiles -- or perhaps more accurately, is not able to pull information about the profiles from its config file as detailed below. To jump to…
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Back in time shows 'saving permission' in the bottom corner of the GUI all the time...is it bad?

Back in time displays 'saving permission...' in the bottom left corner of the GUI all the time, even when it is not being actively used. Does it always do that with other users? Is it a harmless glitch? Are the back ups usable? (I don t want to…
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Transfer "BackinTime" saves from old PC to new one

I'm changing my pc for a newer one. For two years, I have been keeping weekly "saves" using BackinTime. These saves are very helpful: they help to quickly go over the whole history of a project. Now, I'm wondering, is there a way to use these…
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How to run backintime as a user

To allow users to run backintime. I am usually running backintime-kde on ubuntu in the following way: sudo su ssh-agent bash backintime-kde4 --config /root/.config/backintime/config --profile-id 1 This is the only way I found which was working on…
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Back In Time (BIT) Restore Fails on 20.04 with rsync error

I just installed the current Xubuntu 20.04 and tried to restore my backup from my backintime backup via sshfs. Unfortunately, this failed. I checked the full log in /home/user/.local/share/backintime/restore_3.log It has about 450k lines, where the…
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Back-in-time disk usage

I am using Back-in-time with encryption on a remote server (ext4 FS). I am aware that for an unencrypted backup, BiT uses hard links. Thus in nautilus, the folder size appears to be huge. The actual usage can be tracked using du from here and here.…
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Back In Time Configuration Missing?

I've been backing up my system using Back in Time, and I recently had to reinstall my OS due to errors occurring on the OS. I can't seem to find the Back In Time Config file on my external HDD. The folder structure isn't clearly labeled, so trying…
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Backintime backup utility on Kubuntu 16.04

I have an encrypted home directory; the directory i want to backup is on a windows partition and the target is an ext3 partition. The backup should be encrypted and the password saved in kwallet. I would like to run "backintime" on logout or…
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How to restore data from backintime

I crashed my ubuntu installation and reinstalled windows. However I had backintime installed and it took some snapshots which I still have on my HD. I tried to install it on a ubuntu in a virtualbox, but did not see my old snapshots, even when I…
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