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Back In Time – Yet Another Simple Way to Backup Your Linux

Alright, now I’m gonna post a tutorial to install Back In Time in Ubuntu. Its a very useful software to backup and restore your Ubuntu encase if there’s any problem with your Ubuntu. Back In Time acts as a “user mode” backup system. This means that you can backup/restore only folders you have write access to (actually you can backup read-only folders, but you can’t restore them). And now, here are the steps to install Back In Time.

1. Edit your sources.list file by typing:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

2. Add this following command into your sources.list:

deb http://le-web.org/repository stable main

Then save and exit.

3. Add GPA key information from the terminal:

wget http://le-web.org/repository/le-web.key

sudo apt-key add le-web.key

4. Update your repositories by typing:

sudo apt-get update

5. Install Back In Time!

sudo apt-get install backintime-common backintime-gnome

6. And you’re set to go! You can found Back In Time in System Tools>Back In Time

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14. Jul, 2009

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  1. AndroidTux
    15. Jul, 2009 at 3:21 am #

    Hi. One tip: instead of editing the sources.list, just press: alt+F2 and put in the deb http and the deb source (optional).. bye! good luck!

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