TimeVault is a simple front-end for making snapshots of a set of directories. It tries to be the best backup software for GNOME/Ubuntu users. Snapshots are a copy of a directory structure or file at a certain point in time. Restore functionality is integrated into Nautilus - previous versions of a file or directory that has a snapshot can be accessed by examining the properties and selecting the 'Previous Versions' tab.
Snapshots are protected from accidental deletion or modification since they are read-only by default. The super-user can delete intermediate snapshots to save space, but files and directories that existed before or after the deletion will still be accessible.
What is a Snapshot?
A snapshot is a copy of a directory at a certain point in time. Snapshots don't use space for the files that haven't changed but instead simply increment the link count for them. On Linux, when a file is deleted, the link count is decremented, but it isn't actually removed until the link count hits zero.
Only files are hard-linked this way. Directories have to be recreated for technical reasons (since a hard-link is actually the file it points to, you would find yourself in a completely different path if directories were hard-linked).
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Requirements:
· python
· python-gnome2
· python-glade2
· gksu
· sudo
· nautilus
· gnome-terminal
· python-nautilus
· python-notify
· python-gobject
· python-gobject-dev
· libpango1.0-0
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