Happy Linux Wednesday, I have managed to drag myself away from the lovely British sunshine to write this week’s post about Linux. Today I am going to be telling you about a piece of software called TimeVault. It is not a review, I have not been able to use it, this post is this going to explain what it is.

TimeVault is a backing up software which is very similar to Apple’s Time Machine. Basically, if you have not seen Time Machine, it is one of the best feature I have seen on any Operating System. It backs up your data every hour, but when you lose the file, you can go back in time and find the file at the last save point. Time Machine does it in very fancy way, but TimeVault works the same way. It takes snapshots of your computer, and creates an achieve so you are able to go back to where a certain was.

TimeVault is designed to primarily run on Gnome systems using the nautilus file manager, so if you want to install it on a KDE or Xfce system you will have to install Nautilus, this is something I did not want to do. However, Once installed. You basically setup TimeVault to what you want to backup (it will make suggestions), where you want to backup and how often. Once done, it will back up those files when you want to, no need to worry about backing up. Although, there are a few issues is that you can not encrypt the backups and there is no way to restore these files without TimeVault.

TimeVault is an excellent tool which I believe is something which should integrated into linux distributions to make it easier for users to backup. Although it is still in beta, so it could be abit risky, and could definitely do with support for KDE and Xfce, it is definitely  a tool for the future.