Basically you just need to know the profile "number" (1 is the default profile AFAIR) to start a backup backintime --profile-id 1 backup The tricky part is error handling (if you want to get informed automatically if the backup fails). This can be done via "user-callback" bash scripts that are called for designated backintime events. Here you can find some docs + example user-callback scripts: https://github.com/bit-team/user-callback On Sun, 2023-12-10 at 11:43 -0500, Tim Evans wrote:
I have just set up Backintime here, have set up some profiles, and am running snapshot jobs from the GUI; they seem to work fine.
Running on a laptop (Fedora 39) with snapshots directed to an NFS-mounted Network Stoarage Applicance (NAS). I do not wish to add an external disk to the laptop, for laptop portability reasons.
The laptop is (1) not always turned on and (2) not always at home where the NAS is available, so I need to run the jobs manually and can't use cron jobs.
Ideally, I'd like to be able to run the jobs at the bash command line prompt; even better would be to run them via a script.
Where/how can I find the full command line that runs a snapshot defined in a profile?
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