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FAQ
Does FlyBack have to be running for automatic backups to take place?
No. FlyBack uses your crontab to automate backups and cleanups. You really only need the GUI for browsing your history, restoring, and making preferences changes.
Why did you write this when {TimeVault,rdiff-backup,etc} already exist?
Well, I was unaware of some of the competing products when i started this. (the few I had seen I didn't think were easy enough to use to make it likely I'd use them regularly) Plus I wanted more GTK experience. Besides, competition is good. I believe it will make all of the programs in the genre better/faster/stronger.
I get an error message about another backup is running when I know there isn't. What do I do?
Specifically, the following: "The external storage location you've specified is already in use. Please quit any other open instances of FlyBack (or wait for their backups to complete) before starting a new backup."
Delete lockfile.txt from your backup location. Newer versions of FlyBack should be less prone to leaving this lying around.
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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:
and one more print before (and after) the call of the function release_external_storage_location_lock(), near the line 246:
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.