Anyone using Back in Time? MS System Restore for Linux

[JakeLogan]

I have read that Back in Time can easily backup and restore the Linux system state much like Microsoft System Restore does.

See here http://beginlinux.wordpress.com/2010/03/24/back-in-time-system-restore-on-Narly Nachos/

And here: http://backintime.le-web.org/

Not sure if these two are the same or different programs.

Anyone use it? ( there is a version ported to Mandriva so I assume if PCLOS is Mardrake based it may work?) I wanna be able to use it just like system restore, to back up and restore the system state, not files and folders for general backup purposes. Please tell me of your experience with this app.

[parnote]

One huge error in your reasoning ... PCLinuxOS is NOT based on Mandriva.

parnote

[Texstar]

I think I just added backintime package to the repos the other day.

[gseaman]

Yep,

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backintime - BackInTime is a simple backup system your desktop
backintime-gnome - GNOME GUI frontend for backintime.
backintime-kde4 - KDE4 GUI frontend for backintime.

Galen

[JakeLogan]

One huge error in your reasoning ... PCLinuxOS is NOT based on Mandriva.

parnote

ya know.. I read that a long time ago and it stuck. thank you for pointing that out. i will start selling pictures of egg on my face tomorrow for 2 cents a copy. Hmm I'll have to go try to find where i got that idea from.

This is where I got that idea from:

History

The precursor to PCLinuxOS was a set of RPM packages created to improve successive versions of Mandrake Linux (now Mandriva Linux). These packages were created by Bill Reynolds, a packager better known as Texstar.[1] From 2000 to 2003, Texstar maintained his repository of RPM packages in parallel with the PCLinuxOnline site. In an interview, Reynolds said he started PCLinuxOS "to provide an outlet for [his] crazy desire to package source code without having to deal with egos, arrogance and politics."[2]

In October 2003, Texstar created a fork of Mandrake Linux 9.2. Working closely with The Live CD Project, Texstar has since developed that fork independently into a full-fledged distribution. The initial releases were successively numbered as "previews": p5, p7, p8 up to p81a, then p9, p91, p92, and p93.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCLinuxOS

[parnote]

As a former college instructor, I would never allow my students to quote Wikipedia. Because it can literally be edited by anyone, there is no guarantee that the information is correct, as with the erroneous information about PCLinuxOS on Wikipedia.

Yes, Texstar was a Mandriva user. He maintained his own separate, special repo, and just as now, its contents were well known as working exceptionally well. When Tex decided to create his own distro, yes, it was based off of Mandriva. Then, later, there was another import of Mandriva code. However, since then, PCLinuxOS is its own, independent Linux distro, so much so that many Mandriva RPMs will no longer work unaltered with PCLinuxOS. Today, you are just as likely to find code imported from O-Suse, Mandriva, *bun-tu, and every other Linux distro.

JakeLogan, please try to find better sources for information than Wikipedia. While good for many things, it's best to keep in the back of your mind that the information you receive from there may not be 100% correct. As for information about PCLinuxOS, we've ran articles in the past issues of the magazine about the history of PCLinuxOS.

parnote

[Hootiegibbon]

I can confirm that the wikipedia is wellllllllll out a date abd is globally editable,

I can confirm that PCLinuxOS is independent - calling inspriration from all sorts of places

I can confirm that the PCLinuxOS Base is made from RPMs from our repo

I can confirm we have had many rolling toolchain updates since

I can confirm that some need to do more homework and stop copying/quoting other incorrect sources 


Jase

[Rudge]

One huge error in your reasoning ... PCLinuxOS is NOT based on Mandriva.

parnote

ya know.. I read that a long time ago and it stuck. thank you for pointing that out. i will start selling pictures of egg on my face tomorrow for 2 cents a copy. Hmm I'll have to go try to find where i got that idea from.

Can I place my order now?      * just joking *

[Xenaflux]

I can confirm that some need to do more homework and stop copying/quoting other incorrect sources

And that is exactly where the problem is.

Not every body has the time for doing 4 hours a day home work.       

How does the un-informed knows which information is correct or not ?


See ?

[Rudge]

( there is a version ported to Mandriva so I assume if PCLOS is Mardrake based it may work?)

... PCLinuxOS is NOT based on Mandriva.

parnote

Not really all that much homework.  

[Xenaflux]

Not really all that much homework.

OK, I'll put a few smiles with it.
Does that help ?

[Rudge]

My apologies Xenaflux. I am not thinking clear tonight. 

[Xenaflux]

I am not thinking clear tonight.

You lucky beast  

I got that problem 7 days a week !

[JakeLogan]

Point taken. I'll check more sources before relying on something like wikipedia, but I did point out where I learned that notion a long time ago, and I see it's not been fixed in all that time.. perhaps someone savvy enough with wikipedia could give it an edit to make the matter more clear or at least less muddy.

Yes, we have both a kde and gnome version of BackInTime in the repos. Hesitant to try it until I can find out if it will do what i want. A look at the site reveals that their "snapshots' are really large.

[Xenaflux]

...perhaps someone savvy enough with wikipedia could give it an edit to make the matter more clear or at least less muddy.

Please do a search in google with "" pclinuxos is a clone of mandriva mandrake ""
And you will get 70.000 documents which you will have to edit.

Have fun