Mailman 3 November 2022 - Bit-dev

Use a distinctive app icon for BiT?
by BiT dev Dec. 18, 2022

Dec. 18, 2022

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 Dec. 7, 2022

Dec. 7, 2022

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 Nov. 28, 2022

Nov. 28, 2022

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 Nov. 23, 2022

Nov. 23, 2022

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 … [View More]

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

Nov. 12, 2022

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 Nov. 10, 2022

Nov. 10, 2022

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 Nov. 9, 2022

Nov. 9, 2022

for issues with EncFS file system

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Temporary reduce TravisCI jobs
by c.buhtz＠posteo.jp Nov. 9, 2022

Nov. 9, 2022

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 … [View More]

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Re: Introducing: Christian Buhtz
by Germar Reitze Nov. 8, 2022

Nov. 8, 2022

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 … [View More]

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Launchpad translations (po files) in "common" mix-up CLI and GUI texts
by BiT dev Nov. 8, 2022

Nov. 8, 2022

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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Travis CI contributed OSS credits for BiT
by Germar Reitze Nov. 6, 2022

Nov. 6, 2022

Hi, I just got the confirmation from Travis CI Support that they will contribute 25k OSS credits to build and test BiT. Each build will take 10 credits on Linux. When our credits begin running low again, I can reach back to the Support team to gain more credits. Thanks a lot to the friendly people at travis-ci.com Regards, Germar

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Skipped/empty test functions
by c.buhtz＠posteo.jp Nov. 6, 2022

Nov. 6, 2022

Hello, I setup my localhost ssh to make all skipped tests run. But there are still 13 skipped tests. I checked and found out that they are simply not implemented. They looking like this: @unittest.skip('Not yet implemented') def test_rsyncPrefix(self): pass That's it. I would like to "transform" those tests to an Issue ticket about "not implemented tests". Just collect all such skipped and empty tests in an issue. And then deleted that code to make unittest run without errors, fails, … [View More]

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Docu: Code reference
by c.buhtz＠posteo.jp Nov. 6, 2022

Nov. 6, 2022

Hello together, it seems that BIT does use Sphinx. I can see the reStructuredText in the codes docstrings. But I can't find the HTML docu generated from that docstrings. Not sure what the correct term is here for documentation that was generated out of docstrings: "Reference"? Does anyone know if there is such a docu? If not is anyone able to generate such a docu quick and dirty from the current main branch and can send it to me or somewhere else? It doesn't have to go into the official … [View More]

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FYI: PR #1353 (Arch Linux build fails) and PR #1355 (invalid ESC sequences and PEP8 warnings) merged into master and tested with SUCCESS
by BiT dev Nov. 5, 2022

Nov. 5, 2022

I did run our unit tests on HEAD of master (6fc658dd54f139b20f858e5089d0baa860bb8300) on - Manjaro KDE Plasma - Arch KDE Plasma - Arch console-only with success (all unit test succeed). I am in contact with the Arch AUR pkg maintainer "graysky" to retest it (internally only - not as release candidate): https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/backintime#comment-888281 @buhtz > QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 2\nQWidget::render: Cannot render with an inactive painter … [View More]

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Issue #988: Why was "new permission handling" was introduced?
by c.buhtz＠posteo.jp Nov. 4, 2022

Nov. 4, 2022

Hey Folks, I do not understand all details of the issue #988 "New permissions handling in 1.2.0 causes re-backup of files that haven't changed" [1] and don't ask for that details here. But does someone know why this "new" method of permissions handling was introduced by Germar? What was the intention behind it? Are there known problems with the "old way" before? Greetings Christian [1] -- <https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/988>

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Proposal (RfC): New Github repo for technical documentation?
by BiT dev Nov. 4, 2022

Nov. 4, 2022

I am just diving deeper into Wayland and would like to create and publish a kind of summary doc as markdown file for us. Do we already have a Github repo for this kind of technical/development documentation? The "doc" repo seems to contain the end user documentation and I wouldn't put dev docs in there. I propose to add a new repo called "tech_docs" (or "dev-docs")... Any ideas/wishes/objections/proposals? PS: The generated API doc (via Sphinx) could also be published in the new repo … [View More]

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test2
by moonkid＠posteo.org Nov. 4, 2022

Nov. 4, 2022

test2

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Request for review and testing: #1351 fix rsync incompatiblity
by c.buhtz＠posteo.jp Nov. 4, 2022

Nov. 4, 2022

Hello folks, I finally create my PR [1] to fix BIT's incompatibility with newer rsync versions [2]. All details can be found in the PR. IMHO it is final and stable. No need to treat it as a "Draft". But because of the possible high consequences and side effects I request you to do your own tests with that code. I still did manual systematic tests with different distros and rsync versions but of course I could have missed something. To do your own testings you have to clone from my fork … [View More]

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by albertroy587＠gmail.com Nov. 3, 2022

Nov. 3, 2022

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FYI: I have added a new issue label "security"
by BiT dev Nov. 2, 2022

Nov. 2, 2022

... for security and vulnerability related issues like https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/694

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