Introduction

Apple Mac already has a time machine to went back to the time we wants to restore all files we needed. And Windows also has a system restore to went back to the time we wants. But Linux? As long as we knows, Linux doesn’t have a software like that…. Well, this day.. After surfing the internet, I found something really interesting.. I found a ubuntu software that can perform system restoration just like Apple mac time machine and windows system restore. This software named FlyBack. This software is made from google code and I already tested it and it works really well.

Flyback provides much of the same functionality, but does so with a nice GUI wrapper to make the entire process more user-friendly. The UI appears to be GTK-based and overall, it’s impressive. Just about everything you want from rsnapshot is here for the common man to make the most of it with.

Flyback creates successive backup directories mirroring the files that you want to make sure are backed up. In the truest sense, this has the potential to become a very clean, useful means of backing up a system completely. It can be fully automated and can be run via backup, which would likely meet the needs of the most hardcore command line users.

Screenshots of FlyBack:(Click to enlarge the picture)

Installation:

You’re probably need to install this additional software:

Then download:

$ svn checkout http://flyback.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ flyback

or

$ wget http://flyback.googlecode.com/files/flyback_0.4.0.tar.gz$ tar -zxvf flyback_0.4.0.tar.gz

Then change to the new directory (“flyback/src/” or “flyback/”, depending on which you chose above) and run:

$ python flyback.py

Or, use the simple way that I got from tuxsoftware.com

Command Line Installation:

Ubuntu, Debian, gOS:

sudo aptitude install flyback
sudo aptitude download flyback

Installation from Tuxsoftware.com

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using L.S.I.

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with AptUrl

Well, my final opinion with this software is, this software is really good and you must try it, and flyback probably gonna help you to backup and restore in instant just like time machine. But, I also thought that flyback need to improve the UI, it will make people more like this software. Perhaps, FlyBack can request to Ubuntu team to make this software the default backup system.
That’s all of my conclusions with this software.