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Creating backups with TimeVault

CLEAN ARCHIVIST

Author(s): FLORIAN EFFENBERGER

Many backup solutions vie for the user’s attention. TimeVault follows a simple approach and integrates seamlessly with the Gnome desktop.

The TimeVault backup tool automatically creates snapshots in the background, restoring files with the press of a button. To save space, the TimeVault tool only saves files that have changed since the last snapshot, and it simply creates links to all other files. If you delete a specific snapshot or if you lose a snapshot as a result of a crash, you only lose one version of the file.
So that TimeVault is available to each user on the system, you can assign permissions; however, only the system administrator is allowed to configure the program or delete snapshots.


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