Comment 6 for bug 178067

I wish I could tell you TimeVault is active and ready to be included in Hardy Heron, but sadly the project indeed seems to be dying (last edit of trunk was 2007-10-27). I haven't been involved in the project at all yet, but this may be a good excuse to do so. I think if the interface was just cleaned up a bit (maybe a simple page under System->Preferences somewhat like Time Machine's), TimeVault would be good enough to be included in the next version of Ubuntu by default. I won't have a whole lot of time to help, but it would be a good excuse to learn python, backup my computer, etc.

To clarify this bug though, the echo into /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches trick worked for me after restarting the timevault service, but it /will not/ persist when rebooting, it must be repeated each time. Though in hardy heron, I now have a watch limit of 524288.