using v 0.4 . . . how do I specify backups every 3 hours? Should the Backup Schedule "hour:" field be something like this: 3 6 9 12 15 18 21 0 ? Is it space separated, comma separated?

niels.olson: it's standard crontab format. See "man 5 crontab" for more details. You can specify every three hours with "0" for minute and "*/3" for hour.

i have installed flyback on a headless debian machine and configured it from another machine (connected with ssh -Y ...). If I connect to this machine with "ssh -Y" runnning flyback with "python /home/tone/flyback/flyback.py --backup #flyback" everything is ok, no gui launched. If I connect to this with standard "ssh 192.168...." I get the following error: "error: could not find python module gtk"

Does Flyback need X to run ?

Where can I find the file whith the log of flyback's operation? what can I do to controll if the backup doesn't start of some file aren't saved? I have a cron rule to run every 3 hour the python flyback.py --backup command?

thank

How do you specify a folder on another computer? The dialog to select the storage location won't show me folders mounted via SSH. I understand that relying on keyring for authentication might be problematic, but I have public/private key logins set up.

I tried typing in ssh://username@host:/path/to/backup/dir and the terminal from which I was running Flyback complained that it couldn't write the directory (presumably it tried creating the directory on the local file system). I'd rather not mount a folder to my local file system with sshfs because that has proven to be buggy for me.

Any ideas?

can the backups be stored on a remote FTP/etc site?

FB is doing the scheduled backups OK; I made the mistake of thinking that Sunday is the first day of the week.

But it's including a directory from an old FB setup. Where are the preference stored?

anyone got an idea why flyback wants to use gtk when launched GUI-less ?

Great app, just a correction on your project main page as to the required packages to install on ubuntu (hardy)

$ sudo apt-get install python python-glade2 python-gnome2 python-sqlite python-gconf rsync gksu

I would be happy if i had some kind of progress-bar showing how far the backup was.

Great app, just a correction on your project main page as to the required packages to install on ubuntu (feisty)

$ sudo apt-get install python python-glade2 python-gnome2 python-sqlite python-gconf rsync

right, the package is python-sqlite without the number 3.

May we have a more complete guide? It's not very cleare how to backup only a directory, for examples, for a newbie user of linux. Thank you

where can i find how-to restore from backup?

It is true that having a progress bar on the current backup would be very helpful... And more documentation would also be nice on how to set up the application and use it.

That said, I think this is a very good work you have done here. Thanks a heap!