---
name: "simple-backup"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "sbackup"
version: "0.10.3-0.1"
release: "Debian 4.0 (Etch)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/simple-backup"
---

# simple-backup(8)

programm suite to do a simple desktop backups

## NAME

SIMPLE-BACKUP - programm suite to do a simple desktop backups

## SYNOPSIS

**sbackupd** \[--config=/path/to/sbackup.conf\]\
 **srestore.py** source-tdir-uri source-filename \[target-filename\]\
 **simple-backup-config**\
 **simple-restore-gnome**\
 **upgrade\_backups.py** target-directory-uri

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **Simple Backup Suite** commands.

**Simple Backup Suite** is a set of programs that allow to do simple and complex backups with GUI tools only.

## OPTIONS

A summary of options is included below.

- **URI**

  Within SBackup an URI can be either a path to a local file or directory or a reference of a remote SSH server in a form of  *ssh://username:password@example.com/remote/directory/*.  Generally any GnomeVFS accessible location should work.

- **target-directory-uri**

  This is an **URI** of a directory where all backups are held in.\
   Default: */var/backup/*

- **source-tdir-uri**

  This ir an **URI** a subdirectory of a specific backup image, it is usually a  subdirectory of the **target-directory-uri**.\
   Example: */var/backup/2005-08-12\_00.00.02.422308.example.inc*

- **source-filename**

  Name of a file or directory to restore

- **target-filename**

  Where to restore the file or directory to. This can be a name of a file or a directory.  Non-existing directories will be created. Existing files will be renamed out of the way. If this parameter is ommited, then the target filename will be the same as the source filename and the file will be restored to the same location that it was taken from on backup.

## SEE ALSO

[**tar**(1)](/tar/1.md),

## AUTHOR

Simple Backup Suite was written by Aigars Mahinovs \<aigarius@debian.org\>.

This manual page was written by Aigars Mahinovs \<aigarius@debian.org\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).