It’s not as pretty as Time Machine, but fuck pretty–I care that it does what I want it to do, and that it doesn’t cost me a fortune to do it. Back In Time does what I want, and doesn’t cost anything at all. It’s really just a GUI frontend for rsync, but since I suck at rsync in a CLI, and didn’t like “grsync” or whatever it was called, so I’m grateful for it. Ubuntu comes with Simple Backup, but it doesn’t seem to let me have as many options I want. Back In Time does. When I upgraded to Jaunty and switched my /home to a separate partition, I backed everything up to a different partition on my second internal HDD, and that’s where I told BIT to save my stuff. When I forget where it is (or what it’s even called) and how I installed it so it’ll update with the rest of my stuff…

Add to sources:

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

Import the key:

wget http://le-web.org/repository/le-web.key
sudo apt-key add le-web.key

Reload repos and install:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install backintime-common backintime-gnome

There’s one for KDE, too, but I still can’t get into KDE, so…meh.  FWIW, and if I should need it in future, the project page is here.

That was the “cool”. The “argh” is that now, I have Huey Lewis and the News, “Back In Time” stuck in my goddamned head. Oh, well…slightly better than Agadou, I guess. 😛