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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>
<holder>Oprea Dan, Bart de Koning, Richard Bailey</holder>
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<title>Introduction</title>
<para>&app; is a simple backup tool for Linux (this is KDE4 version). The backup is done by taking snapshots of
a specified set of folders.</para>
<para>All you have to do is:</para>
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<listitem><para>configure where to save snapshots</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>cofigure what folders to backup</para></listitem>
<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
you have write access to (actually you can backup read-only folders, but you can't restore them).</para>
<para>If you want to run it as root you need to use "sudo -i backintime" (command line) or "pkexec backintime-qt4" (GUI).</para>
<para>A new snapshot is created only if something changed since the last snapshot (if any).</para>
<para>A snapshot contains all the files from the selected folders (except for exclude patterns).
In order to reduce disk space it use hard-links (if possible) between snapshots for unchanged files.
This way a file of 10MiB, unchanged for 10 snapshots, will use only 10Mb on the disk.</para>
<para>When you restore a file 'A', if it already exists on the file system it will be renamed to
'A.backup.currentdate'.</para>
<para>This documentation is not maintained (at least for the moment), please use the man-page 'man backintime'
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<para> &app; was written by Oprea Dan
(<email>dan@le-web.org</email>), Bart de Koning (<email>bratdaking@gmail.com</email>),
Richard Bailey (<email>rmjb@mail.com<email>). To find more information about
&app;, please visit the
<ulink url="https://github.com/bit-team/backintime" type="http">Back In Time Web
page</ulink>. </para>
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To report a bug or make a suggestion regarding this application or
this manual, sent a mail to
<ulink url="mailto:bit-team@lists.launchpad.net" type="mailto">bit-team@lists.launchpad.net</ulink>.
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<para> This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU
General Public license version 2 as published by the Free Software
Foundation. A copy of this license can be found in the file
LICENSE included with the source code of this program. </para>
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