Bug 268596

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.6.1) 
OS:                Linux

It would be really nice if we had a backup (snapshot) tool like Apple's "Time Machine" integrated in KDE. We already have all the core parts, since we have already anacron (for the scheduled jobs) and rsnapshot (for the periodic, incremental, hard link based snapshots). 
We also can mount a directory on top of another directory in read-only bind mode, so we can preserve files avalable for restoration from modification.

The only thing missing is a nice frontend to let the unexperienced user configure the backup and restore files from snapshots.

This restore tool could just be a file manager that displays in different panes a scrollale time line of the various snapshots of a specific file or directory, so the user can look at different versions of that file or directory and choose whether he/she wants to restore it or not. 

I think also that this frontend shoud warn the user when the space avalilable is low. Dolphin/Konqueror integration would be really great!

I love rsnapshot, and it saved my life many times, but you know, all that configuration file editing could be scaring for some new users, and they are the same users that really need a reliable way to do automatic backups.

This feature request was originally submitted through KDE Brainstorm, and has been submitted to Bugzilla due to popular demand. Original idea: http://forum.kde.org/brainstorm.php#idea53625_page1

Reproducible: Didn't try