I've installed backintime and configured it with "sudo backintime-kde4". Everything works fine (e.g. cronjobs or backup every reboot) except running it with anacron. I can see a crontab entry for root: #Back In Time system entry, this will be edited by the gui: */15 * * * * test -x /usr/sbin/anacron && test -e /root/.config/backintime/anacrontab && /usr/sbin/anacron -s -t /root/.config/backintime/anacrontab -S /root/.local/share/backintime/anacron which seems to be executed (grep anacron /var/log/messages): Nov 8 16:13:37 gen2 anacron[2381]: Anacron 2.3 started on 2015-11-08 Nov 8 16:13:37 gen2 anacron[2381]: Normal exit (0 jobs run) Unfortunately 0 backintime jobs have been run and no snapshots are visible in backintime-kde4. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. start backintime-kde4 with sudo 2. select schedule with anacron 3. anacron starts but does not start a backintime job Actual Results: anacron does not run a backintime job. Expected Results: anacron starts a backintime job.
Do you have any new informations about that? Does it still exist in backintime-1.1* ?
1.0.36-r2 is the stable version in gentoo. I've opened a stable request (565150) for 1.1.4 and a verson bump ticket (565148) for 1.1.8. As soon as a 1.1.* version is in stable I will check if the bug still exists...
with backintime 1.1.4 I'm getting the following when changing the settings: Check snapshot folder: /mnt/backup Clearing system Back In Time entries crontab: usage error: file name must be specified for replace usage: crontab [-u user] file crontab [-u user] [ -e | -l | -r ] (default operation is replace, per 1003.2) -e (edit user's crontab) -l (list user's crontab) -r (delete user's crontab) Profile: Hauptprofil Automatic backup: Wiederholend (anacron) crontab: usage error: file name must be specified for replace usage: crontab [-u user] file crontab [-u user] [ -e | -l | -r ] (default operation is replace, per 1003.2) -e (edit user's crontab) -l (list user's crontab) -r (delete user's crontab) sh: Zeile 1: echo: Schreibfehler: Datenübergabe unterbrochen (broken pipe). QObject::startTimer: QTimer can only be used with threads started with QThread QObject::startTimer: QTimer can only be used with threads started with QThread
with backintime 1.1.8-r1 it works.
