For those who are not familiar with Apple’s Time Machine, Time Machine basically is a software that backs up everything on your computer incrementally. What does this mean? Initially, Time Machine takes a backup of the entire computer (no compression) skipping caches and other files that are not needed to restore your computer to its original state.

Then every hour, every day, an incremental backup is automatically made. As many of you are probably thinking of, the possibilities of this feature are endless.

NOW, this is available for linux as well!! It’s a privately developed project called Flyback!

How to use Flyback:

Install the following packages:

Debian: $ sudo apt-get install python python-glade2 python-gnome2 rsync
Ubuntu: $ sudo apt-get install python python-glade2 python-gnome2 python-gconf rsync
Redhat/Fedora: $ yum install pygtk2 gnome-python2-gconf pygtk2-libglade

Then download, extract, change to the new directory and run:
./flyback.py

To use the GUI:
python flyback.py
To perform GUI-less backup:
python flyback.py --backup

Awesome! Right?