Back In Time VS BinaryEye

Compare Back In Time vs BinaryEye and see what are their differences.

Back In Time

Back In Time - An easy-to-use backup tool for GNU Linux using rsync in the back (by bit-team)
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Back In Time BinaryEye
38 13
1,822 1,167
3.9% -
8.9 9.0
3 days ago 3 days ago
Python Kotlin
GNU General Public License v3.0 only MIT License
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Back In Time

Posts with mentions or reviews of Back In Time. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-29.
  • Why is contributing soo hard
    2 projects | /r/opensource | 29 Sep 2023
    Back In Time is a round about 15 years old backup software using rsync in the back. I'm part of the 3rd generation maintenance team there. A lot of work in investigating and fixing issues, understanding, documenting and refactoring old code.
  • Free Software project "Back In Time" requests for translators
    2 projects | /r/localization | 1 Jul 2023
    Most of the strings are form two past developers (the founder and the past maintainer). Since last summer we took over the project and try to clean things up. Some of the source strings just got a review from a linguist and he also mentioned about that exclamation marks. But he kind of stopped at some point because it was to much. ;)
    2 projects | /r/localization | 1 Jul 2023
    Sources strings are source. So you have to open an Issue/BugReport for that. The platform (weblate) don't offer that feature currently to directly connect a string to a new ticket. You have to check out https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues .
  • How do you make the jump from intermediate to expert?
    2 projects | /r/Python | 28 May 2023
  • Newb learning GitHub & Python. Projects?
    4 projects | /r/github | 22 Jan 2023
    Back In Time
  • looking for a project
    3 projects | /r/github | 22 Dec 2022
    Back In Time is a project born round about the year 2008. A rsync-based backup software with a GUI for Linux. It seems that there is a new team of maintainers reanimating the project with support from the previous maintainer. It looks like it is on a good way.
  • General tips for Debian-newbie?
    4 projects | /r/debian | 16 May 2022
    People need to stop recommending rsync for backups. Some reasonable, time-tested software suggestions are Back In Time, Borg+Vorta, and my minimal CLI choice, rdiff-backup.
  • What are you doing for your backups?
    4 projects | /r/linux | 26 Apr 2022
    I use backintime to back up files in my home directory, and use Timeshift for backing up system settings (really useful if you're messing around with your grub and fuck something up, speaking from experience).
  • Encrypted system back ups: Nextcloud or Rsync?
    3 projects | /r/NextCloud | 21 Feb 2022
  • Best and easiest way to backup?
    2 projects | /r/pop_os | 17 Feb 2022
    I use BackInTime for userspace backups, Timeshift for system files.

BinaryEye

Posts with mentions or reviews of BinaryEye. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-28.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Back In Time and BinaryEye you can also consider the following projects:

TimeShift - System restore tool for Linux. Creates filesystem snapshots using rsync+hardlinks, or BTRFS snapshots. Supports scheduled snapshots, multiple backup levels, and exclude filters. Snapshots can be restored while system is running or from Live CD/USB.

BorgBackup - Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.

Rsnapshot - a tool for backing up your data using rsync (if you want to get help, use https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rsnapshot-discuss)

Duplicati - Store securely encrypted backups in the cloud!

snapper-gui - GUI for snapper, a tool for Linux filesystem snapshot management, works with btrfs, ext4 and thin-provisioned LVM volumes

restic - Fast, secure, efficient backup program

Kup Backup System - A backup scheduler for KDE's Plasma desktop

Duplicity - Unnoficial fork of Duplicity - Bandwidth Efficient Encrypted Backup

backy2 - backy2: Deduplicating block based backup software for ceph/rbd, image files and devices

rsync-time-backup - Time Machine style backup with rsync.

Backup - Easy full stack backup operations on UNIX-like systems.

Lsyncd - Lsyncd (Live Syncing Daemon) synchronizes local directories with remote targets