Mailman 3 November 2022 - Bit-dev

Use a distinctive app icon for BiT?
by BiT dev 18 Dec '22

18 Dec '22

Currently BiT uses a standard icon as app icon: "document-save" A unique distinctive icon would great as visual "trademark". I have found one issue discussing this (stil open): https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/215 Are there icon designer listening here who want to come along with proposals? I think I could add this icon to the resource bundle to get rid of missing app and sys tray icons...

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Correct way to execute BiT CLI as root (to show system tray icon)?
by BiT dev 07 Dec '22

07 Dec '22

We have BiT qt GUI (root) but no corresponding starter script for BiT CLI (root). Is there any documentation or recommendation how to start it? Background: I want to test if sudo backintime --profile-id 1 --debug backup-job shows the sys tray icon if I start it as root. What is the recommended way of starting "backintime" as root so that the sys tray icon appears?

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Back In Time mentioned in german computer magazin ct 13/2022
by BiT dev 28 Nov '22

28 Nov '22

I was archiving my "old" magazines and have found an article about BiT and other backup software for linux desktops here: https://www.heise.de/tests/Fuenf-Backup-Programme-fuer-Linux-im-Test-712719… Short link: https://www.heise.de/-7127194 We could create a list of publications and authors (eg. for future press contacts for new releases)...

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Document weak dependencies when spawning sub processes?
by BiT dev 23 Nov '22

23 Nov '22

I have just managed to identify a bug preventing the sys tray icon to be shown (together with the issue reporter) https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/1236#issuecomment-1324079326 and it turned out that a required CLI tool (`xdpyinfo`) was not installed which is used to check if X11 is running https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/blob/713590f45cb83d1192a104ec77b7356… https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/blob/713590f45cb83d1192a104ec77b7356… I think we should work through all source files and document required CLI tools. This is not only required to prevent bugs but also for package maintainers.

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BiT mentioned in Linux Magazin 12/2022 article (German only)
by BiT dev 12 Nov '22

12 Nov '22

https://www.linux-magazin.de/ausgaben/2022/12/bitparade/ It is behind a paywall for the next 10 months. We could drop a comment about the maintenance status...

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No longer unmaintained :)
by Michael Büker 10 Nov '22

10 Nov '22

Hi all, just something small to cheer us up: The devloper of restic keeps the most comprehensive list/database of Linux backup software here: https://github.com/restic/others Until recently, it listed backintime as "unmaintained". This has changed now, because of the work we're doing :) --> https://github.com/restic/others/pull/73 Have a nice week! Michael

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FYI: New issue label "EncFS" created
by BiT dev 09 Nov '22

09 Nov '22

for issues with EncFS file system

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Temporary reduce TravisCI jobs
by c.buhtz＠posteo.jp 09 Nov '22

09 Nov '22

Hi Folks, it is just an idea because our credits on TravisCI are free but not unlimited. Each PR and each new commit on such a PR do create 5 testing jobs (in fact running containers) eating our Travis credits. I propose to deactivate 4 jobs and just keep Python 3.10 on AMD64 as the one and only testing job until we prepare the next release. For myself I sometimes create PR's against my own forked repo to run TravisCI with my own credits just to be sure. What do you think? It could spare a lot of credits. Kind Christian

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Re: Introducing: Christian Buhtz
by Germar Reitze 08 Nov '22

08 Nov '22

Hi, I'm Germar Reitze from Germany in my early 40s. I'm an architect (the one for buildings made of bricks and concrete 😉). I never had a professional IT background but as an autodidact I started coding when I was 8 and I love to train my IT skills. I started using BackInTime in 2008. But in those days there was no way to use a NAS in a good way. I was forced to mount the NAS with Samba or NFS and sync to that share. This was quite inefficient and slow. So after learning Python I started hacking an SSH option for BiT. Because it worked out better than I thought, I asked Oprea Dan (the founder of BiT) if he would like to merge the code. He gave me lots of good hints on how to improve my code. Round about one year later he asked me if I'd like to take over the whole project. Since than I invested a lot of time, effort and even money to improve BiT. But in the last 3-4 years I did not find the time anymore to contribute to BiT. Also I changed my personal backup suit from BiT to borg-backup mainly because of the deduplication feature and the append-only mode. I'm really happy to see a team forming for BiT. I will help as far as I can to support you. I had some problems in the past month (mainly because my gmail account for this project stopped silently to refresh as my fetchmail script didn't use OAUTH). But I fixed that and joined the mailinglist. So I'm looking forward to see the project moving further. Kind Regards, Germar

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Launchpad translations (po files) in "common" mix-up CLI and GUI texts
by BiT dev 08 Nov '22

08 Nov '22

I just saw that the PO files seem to contain also texts used only in the qt GUI but the "po" files are stored only in "common" so we have no clear separation of BiT CLI vs. GUI. Formally "qt" depends on "common" and "common" does just contain "more translations than needed for the CLI". Have there any known problems with that? If there should be a urgent problem it would be a lot of work to separate the texts again into separated "po" files for CLI and GUI...

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