Does Flyback support (or will it support) encrypted backups using PGP or other such encryption support? Would be nice feature, not sure how much extra coding would be required.

Can we get a gentoo ebuild also please?

"Delete lockfile.txt from your backup location. Newer versions of FlyBack? should be less prone to leaving this lying around."

Fantastic and all, but when will we see this backup? Because you have to delete this file each time before delivering the manual command to backup. Which means that Flyback does not backup automatically; it wants to, but runs into lockfile.txt unless you delete that first. Which means the program does not do what it says it does. This is a problem.

the funny is that when i inserted three "print" lines on the code everything just worked... on my file backup_backend.py, near the line 70 I inserted two prints before it and one later to "debug": so... the lines 68-71 are now like that:

print "deleting file:" print lockfile os.remove(lockfile) print "file deleted"

and one more print before (and after) the call of the function release_external_storage_location_lock(), near the line 246:

print "releasing" release_external_storage_location_lock() print "released"

I expected to debug that when everything just worked... anyway... now its fine!, i think...

How can I donate to this project?

> Comment by niels.olson, Yesterday (47 hours ago) > How can I donate to this project?

checks can be made payable to the "Anderson Education and Entertainment Fund", C.O. Derek Anderson, yada yada... =P

I can't get Flyback backups to run when logged out. I consistently get a message "can't open display". Crontab is running " python <directory stuff omitted>/flyback.py --backup. Why would it need a display at all? If I stay logged in, the cron job runs fine.

Please do consider throwing this onto software.opensuse.org (which isn't just for suse). Makes it easier for people to upgrade down the track, too.

I would love to use this project, is it currently been maintained and upgraded?

It looks like this is a dead project, wish I knew enough to be able take it over

Can FlyBack? run under KDE? If so, what should be installed?

Hardy Heron crashed in the middle of a backup. Should I just delete the partial backup and start over? Or should I just delete the lockfile.txt and run it again? I think I'm going to do the former.

Well, now, that's interesting . . . before doing anything, I went and replaced my car lightbulb. I came back, checked before deleting, and the backup directory had more stuff in it. And, funny thing, Hardy crashed again. Both times Hardy crashed while restoring a firefox window. Which has nothing to do with flyback, I'd assume . . . Nevertheless, the question stands: if a backup is interrupted by a system fault, what to do?

Does Flyback support Amazon S3?

So it seems that what flyback (rsync itself?) does with an interrupted backup is that it loses track of the diff and rebacks-up everything. Which takes an awful lot of disk space! What's the best way to roll this back to a known-good backup?

I am running Flyback on Fedora and i have one mounted drive via smb for windows server i want to transfer backup from fedora to that windows drive and also in compressed format. Any suggestion how can i do this via crontab

Is flyback able to synchronise two copies of the same files? I have a project where this would be ideal. At the moment I am going to use Unison but am not 100% confident it will run properly.

A progress bar would is necessesary when restoring backup because it's impossible to know when it ended.

A backup program is usefull when things go wrong. That mean if I have prblem with X after an upgrade, I can't restore any of my previous backup. I sugest a way from console to restore a specific safe backup.

Great, I was able to run it on OpenSuse? 11.0

is there a way to use such a method with compressed backups?

Um... KDE4 experience ftw... but i might try this :-)

You could get rid of the "Apple's Time Machine" to make this nicer for a start. Tired of reading "Windows, Microsoft, Mac, Apple" inside my linux box.

I get this error: error: could not find python module gtk

I made a gtktest.py with this line: import gtk And i get this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "gtktest.py", line 1, in ?

import gtk

File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/gtk-2.0/gtk/init.py", line 45, in ?

from gtk import

What could that be? Thanks.

I just discovered Flyback and it's pretty good for my purposes. My main computer is a laptop and I have a desktop with a large hard disk to back up to. Both are Hardy x86_64. But I don't create new stuff that needs to be saved every day or even every week. I need once-in-a-while backups and Flyback allows me to do my backups when I deem it necessary.

However, I discovered that I cannot verify that all the files are backed up with Nautilus because stupid Nautilus does not count hidden files when telling you the total size and number of files in a folder. Bah!

It would be really nice if Flyback had a progress bar or incrementing counter or something so the user could see the progress. It would also be nice to have a statistics window when the backup is over, so I could see how many files were backed up, the total size, and the time it took.

Nice project. I plan to contribute eventually.

Is there any way to check the status of an ongoing bakup?

I think Flyback is a terrific program, and it has saved me hours of work when I lost the contents of my hard drive.My backups are saved on an external drive. Question: I have a bigger, newer hard drive fitted that is partitioned. I have Linux Ubuntu 8.04 (64) on one partition and Windows XP-Pro on the other. Flyback is installed on the Unbuntu partition ... when I backup using Flyback will it also backup the Windows XP-Pro partition as well, or do I need to install a second backup program compatible to Microsoft on the Windows partition? Thanks, Gael.