Comment 1 for bug 1375630

Please take a look at 'man backintime-config'. This explains all config keys. You can find examples in /usr/share/doc/backintime/examples/.

A CLI would be a nice feature and there was already a branch in https://code.launchpad.net/~ryan-c-ahearn/backintime/command_line_interface
But unfortunately this branch was never merged into main dev branch. By now it is completely outdated and would need a lot of work to comply with main branch.

I'm currently working on getting rid of two GUIs (Gnome/Gtk+ and KDE) to make further development easier with only one Qt4 GUI. But if someone would like to overhaul the CLI code we could merge this into 1.1 series.