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15.0 > System > luckybackup (0.5.0)

luckybackup is a powerful, fast and reliable backup & sync tool that
relies on rsync. It is written and maintained by Loukas Avgeriou.
The program has a graphical frontend as well as a commandline
frontend.

Web links in 'About' won't connect when luckyBackup is run as root.

Inline documentation: Gui -> Help -> luckyBackup Handbook (F1)
External links give a blank page that stalls the manual; to
continue with inline documentation, restart the program.
Online documentation: https://luckybackup.sourceforge.net/manual.html

The current version, 0.5.0, has not changed for years, but the author
still provides support; see
Discussions: https://sourceforge.net/p/luckybackup/discussion/
Known bugs: https://luckybackup.sourceforge.net/bugs.html

Note, issues with lucky backup could relate to (updates of) rsync.

Maintained by: Rob van Nues
Keywords: backup,sync,rsync,qt4,kde,qt,graphical,synchronize,data recovery,synchronization
ChangeLog: luckybackup

Homepage:
http://luckybackup.sourceforge.net

Source Downloads:
luckybackup-0.5.0.tar.gz (4233d5ddfb3891c1d06fae8b85377d9e)

Download SlackBuild:
luckybackup.tar.gz
luckybackup.tar.gz.asc (FAQ)

(the SlackBuild does not include the source)

Validated for Slackware 15.0

See our HOWTO for instructions on how to use the contents of this repository.

Access to the repository is available via:
ftp git cgit http rsync

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