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A comfortable and well-configurable graphical Frontend for incremental backups, with a command-line version also available. Modified files are transferred, while unchanged files are linked to the new folder using rsync's hard link feature, saving storage space. Restoring is straightforward via file manager, command line or Back In Time itself.

12 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 7 stories, 5 comments · first 2019-06-12 · latest 2026-09-03

Mentions per year 12 mentions · busiest year 2024 (5)
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    Show HN: 2nd Release Canddiate for Back in Time 2.0.0
    story by buhtz · 2026-09-03 · 0 comments
  2. ▲ 7
    Show HN: Back In Time 2.0.0 – Release Candidate 1
    story by buhtz · 2026-08-15 · 1 comment
  3. ▲ 1
    Faroese, Croatian, Slovenian and Vietnamese might be removed from GUI
    story by buhtz · 2025-10-15 · 0 comments
  4. ▲ 2
    Release – Back in Time 1.5.6
    story by buhtz · 2025-10-05 · 0 comments
  5. ▲ 1
    Back In Time release version 1.5.3
    story by buhtz · 2024-11-13 · 1 comment
  6. ▲ 1
    Release Candidate for Back in Time 1.5.3
    story by buhtz · 2024-10-20 · 1 comment
  7. ▲ 2
    Back In Time 1.5.1 released
    story by buhtz · 2024-07-28 · 0 comments