Request for TimeShift

Question

There is an interesting new backup software out there which "provides functionality similar to the System Restore feature in Windows and the Time Machine tool in Mac OS. TimeShift protects your system by taking incremental snapshots of the file system at regular intervals. These snapshots can be restored later to bring your system to the exact state it was in at the time when the snapshot was taken." [1]
[1] http://teejeetech.blogspot.nl/2013/10/i … shift.html
The steps to get it running are described here [2].
How could this be translated into a working PKGBUILD?
[2] http://teejeetech.blogspot.nl/2013/10/t … buntu.html

Answer 1

It can be and I got a basic one working, but prebuilt binaries from other systems suck. The source is available on launchpad, but no source tarballs that I can see, so we'll have to use bzr to pull a specific rev, which also sucks for a stable package.
Edit, I don't have time right now to get the source build going, so here's the working package for the pre-built binaries
# Contributor: Doug Newgard <scimmia22 at outlook dot com>
pkgname=timeshift-bin
pkgver=1.1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="A system restore utility for Linux"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="http://teejeetech.blogspot.nl/p/timeshift.html"
license=('GPL')
depends=('gtk3' 'rsync' 'libgee06' 'libsoup' 'json-glib')
optdepends=('gksu: run timeshift from a menu')
options=('!emptydirs')
if [[ "$CARCH" == "i686" ]]; then
_arch='i386'
sha256sums=('f3de6fc6f3019a6db5044eeb654aa9d12d7030a2ff71957f0f340e43c69c4b85')
elif [[ "$CARCH" == "x86_64" ]]; then
_arch='amd64'
sha256sums=('4332bde4c4db5de5e4f8f543cb38c93f455fe254864259d5a9d499d6df48438c')
fi
source=("http://dl.dropbox.com/u/67740416/linux/timeshift-latest-$_arch.run")
package() {
cd "$srcdir"
sh ./timeshift-latest-$_arch.run --target "$pkgdir" --noexec
rm "$pkgdir/install.sh"
Last edited by Scimmia (2013-10-20 19:57:41)