TimeVault System Backup

Backups for the rest of us

Information

There is a Structure document that explains some of the concepts and assumptions made when developing TimeVault. Also see the Terminology when you have questions about what means what.

Some of my reasons for starting my own version of TimeVault are described in this blog post. However, some of that info is out of date, so don’t take it all literally.

Updates

Andrew’s Blog is a good place to watch for updates on TimeVault’s status.

Sources

The TimeVault sources are now up, check the repositories tab. Keep in mind that TimeVault is currently in an extremely experimental state and until further notice should not be considered a stable backup solution.
you will want to do a ‘git clone repo TimeVault’

Notes on compiling

You need at a minimum:

• KDE4 devel packages
  
• QT4 devel packages
  
• compiler (GCC is a good bet)
  
• CMake
  
• rsync (Without this, no backups will work)

TimeVault uses cmake. You should use a build directory (create it as a subdir of the main TimeVault dir). From within the build dir, use

$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake ..
$ make
$ sudo make install

The kde system config cache also needs to be updated. Also, dbus will have
to be reloaded to process the new kauth files provided

$ kbuildsycoca4
$ sudo /etc/init.d/dbus reload

Backups

See Backup

Restoration

See Restore