bit-team / backintime

A comfortable and well-configurable graphical Frontend for incremental backups, with a command-line version also available. Modified files are transferred, while unchanged files are linked to the new folder using rsync's hard link feature, saving storage space. Restoring is straightforward via file manager, command line or Back In Time itself.

Date Created 2015-10-11 (9 years ago)

Commits 2,595 (last one 17 hours ago)

Stargazers 2,272 (7 this week)

Watchers 49 (0 this week)

Forks 227

License gpl-2.0

Ranking

RepositoryStats indexes 631,351 repositories, of these bit-team/backintime is ranked #23,539 (96th percentile) for total stargazers, and #42,215 for total watchers. Github reports the primary language for this repository as Python, for repositories using this language it is ranked #3,693/128,766.

bit-team/backintime is also tagged with popular topics, for these it's ranked: python (#1,508/23380), linux (#551/6195), qt (#67/800), backup (#37/481), good-first-issue (#18/229)

Other Information

bit-team/backintime has 6 open pull requests on Github, 410 pull requests have been merged over the lifetime of the repository.

Github issues are enabled, there are 181 open issues and 1,420 closed issues.

There have been 25 releases, the latest one was published on 2025-03-24 (18 hours ago) with the name Back In Time 1.5.4 (March 24, 2025).

Homepage URL: https://backintime.readthedocs.io

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updated: 2025-03-25 @ 04:29am, id: 44059189 / R_kgDOAqBKNQ