Backup tools (Backintime?)

Xeo84 · 2009-06-20 13:59:02

When i use gnome i use with no problems backintime to backup my folders daily!
But now i need to work on a pc with fluxbox without gnome! i installed backintime-common from source and it work via command line! (i can't install backintime-gnome because it doesn't find gnome ad can't compile!).

No problem i can use backintime from console but i'm unable to find a documentation!! on website there is only a gui howto, and the manual isn't cler at all!
i just want to set up a job schedule! can you help me??

thanks!

Ramses de Norre · 2009-06-20 14:01:10

there is a backintime package in aur, did you try that?

fukawi2 · 2009-06-20 22:42:50

Ramses de Norre wrote:

there is a backintime package in aur, did you try that?

Xeo84 wrote:

i can't install backintime-gnome because it doesn't find gnome ad can't compile!

That answers that question.

I don't have an answer for you, but I am interested in learning this too. Let us know what you find if no-one else provides any answers here.

bruno321 · 2010-10-23 22:47:34

I know this is a bit necro, but it's the same problem that persists.

That is, I run backintime (perfectly installed from AUR) but because I use fluxbox, it doesn't recognize any GUI. What should I do to get a GUI?

Thanks,

graysky · 2010-10-23 22:53:20

I successfully run BIT under lxde by :

$ gksu backintime-gnome

bruno321 · 2010-10-24 02:25:27

Command not found. I have installed the backintime AUR package: what else should I install?

fukawi2 · 2010-10-24 02:49:06

Install gksu
I've fixed the deps in the PKGBUILD now for the Gnome/default build

bruno321 · 2010-10-24 11:55:22

Hmm, it doesn't work. Running $ gksu backintime-gnome opens the pretty window asking my user's password but then sh: backintime-gnome: command not found.

I've also installed the updated AUR package and still nothing.

Oh, by the way, I don't know how relevant this is to this matter, but when I install the package I get this error/warning:
/tmp/packertmp-1000/backintime.PKGBUILD: line 23: [: too many arguments

fukawi2 · 2010-10-24 22:41:57

bruno321 wrote:

Hmm, it doesn't work. Running $ gksu backintime-gnome opens the pretty window asking my user's password but then sh: backintime-gnome: command not found.

Has `backintime-gnome` been installed? Is it in your PATH?

bruno321 wrote:

Oh, by the way, I don't know how relevant this is to this matter, but when I install the package I get this error/warning:
/tmp/packertmp-1000/backintime.PKGBUILD: line 23: [: too many arguments

Thanks, I'll have a look. I run Gnome, so I'm not able to test all these *box environments to see errors like this so your help is great

fukawi2 · 2010-10-24 22:48:22

fukawi2 wrote:

bruno321 wrote:
Oh, by the way, I don't know how relevant this is to this matter, but when I install the package I get this error/warning:
/tmp/packertmp-1000/backintime.PKGBUILD: line 23: [: too many arguments
Thanks, I'll have a look. I run Gnome, so I'm not able to test all these *box environments to see errors like this so your help is great

That would have been breaking things; it wasn't *box specific either, I just missed it in the output when I did my test build. Please build again using the latest PKGBUILD (-4) and you should have more success (I hope!)

bruno321 · 2010-10-24 23:32:59

Ok, I tried to install it again. Now it downloaded meld and python-notify as dependencies. But here's the final output:

==> Building the gnome UI
which: no gnome-session in (/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/opt/java/jre/bin:/opt/kde/bin:/usr/bin/perlbin/vendor:/usr/lib/perl5/core_perl/bin:/opt/qt/bin:/opt/kde/bin:/opt/kde/bin)
ERROR: Can't find GNOME !
Aborting...
The build failed.

P.S. I don't have any 'backintime-gnome' package, I haven't installed it and I don't know how I could!

Last edited by bruno321 (2010-10-24 23:34:15)

fukawi2 · 2010-10-25 01:39:36

bruno321 wrote:

==> Building the gnome UI
which: no gnome-session in (/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/opt/java/jre/bin:/opt/kde/bin:/usr/bin/perlbin/vendor:/usr/lib/perl5/core_perl/bin:/opt/qt/bin:/opt/kde/bin:/opt/kde/bin)
ERROR: Can't find GNOME !
Aborting...

Try adding 'gnome-session' to the 'depends' array on line 24 and let me know if that solves the issue:

depends=( ${depends[@]} pygtk python-notify gnome-python meld gksu gnome-session )

bruno321 wrote:

P.S. I don't have any 'backintime-gnome' package, I haven't installed it and I don't know how I could!

It should be installed by this package, but it wasn't because of the 'too many arguments' error you pointed out before

Last edited by fukawi2 (2010-10-25 01:40:50)

bruno321 · 2010-10-25 01:55:44

It repairs the installation, but still:

$ backintime

Back In Time
Version: 1.0.2

Back In Time comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `backintime --license' for details.

No GUI is opened.

fukawi2 · 2010-10-25 07:40:36

I'm not sure then. You might need to ask upstream now you've gotten to this stage....

bruno321 · 2010-10-25 15:21:32

I'm sorry, I'm still a bit new to Arch. Could you point me more precisely where to ask? Thank you.

If I post this problem somewhere else I'll post a link to it.

fukawi2 · 2010-10-25 21:33:16

This looks like upstream's "forum":
https://answers.launchpad.net/backintime

litemotiv · 2010-10-31 12:34:11

Moving to Workstation User.

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#1 2009-06-20 13:59:02

Backup tools (Backintime?)

#2 2009-06-20 14:01:10

Re: Backup tools (Backintime?)

#3 2009-06-20 22:42:50

Re: Backup tools (Backintime?)

#4 2010-10-23 22:47:34

Re: Backup tools (Backintime?)

#5 2010-10-23 22:53:20

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#6 2010-10-24 02:25:27

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#7 2010-10-24 02:49:06

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#8 2010-10-24 11:55:22

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#9 2010-10-24 22:41:57

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#10 2010-10-24 22:48:22

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#12 2010-10-25 01:39:36

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