BACKINTIME-QT(1)

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version 1.6.1 · 10 versions
, in ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💅 BACKINTIME-QT(1) — the Back In Time manual, but make it cute ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Back In Time glow-up page for backintime-qt 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

backintime-qt — literally the Graphical Frontend for Back In Time 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

backintime-qt [--help | -h] [--version] [--license] [--debug] <command>
[<args>]

no cap, that's the whole vibe check right there 👑

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so <pink>backintime-qt</pink> is the graphical frontend (GUI) for Back In Time — it's giving user-friendly, it's giving configurable, and it's all about managing incremental backups 🫶

here's the tea ☕: files that changed get copied, and files that didn't change get efficiently linked using the hard link feature of rsync(1) so your storage usage stays minimal. lowkey genius, highkey slay 💅

and restoring? easy. you can get your backups back via:

  • the file manager 🗂️
  • the command line ⌨️
  • or straight up inside the Back In Time interface itself ✨

for the detailed lore, go read backintime (1). and btw — any command-line options and arguments you hand to backintime-qt(1) get passed directly to backintime(1). they just vibe on through 🌈

💀 important: if you wanna run the app with root privileges, use backintime-qt_polkit. not this one. periodt.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -h, --help — Display a short help. your little "what do i do now" bestie 🙈
  • -v, --version — Show version. who are you, really 🦋
  • --license — Show license. the legal tea ⭐
  • --debug — Show debug messages. for when you need the receipts 🔥
💖 psst — see backintime(1) for more options. there's more where that came from.

👑 COMMANDS 👑

See backintime(1) for commands. yep, that's it, that's the section — go check the other page, iykyk 💜

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Back In Time project website: https://github.com/bit-team/backintime 🌐

Back In Time mailing list: https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/bit-dev.python.org 📬

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Back In Time Team — icons, the lot of them 🫶

and that's the page bestie!! brought to you by <rainbow>backintime-qt 1.6.1</rainbow>, dated 2026-02-28 — main character energy from the Back In Time Team, mwah 💋✨🎀

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