I use Timeshift for years now for ALL linux files, including Home. Personal files are on a separat drive. Best backup solution, not a worry when updating or traying something like Nvidia.
Today I had the Linux Mint 21.1 crash totally. It wouldn't boot even! Well, I think 6 years of trying this and that (and some more) might be the reason. But, I have my LM system on an SSD, and the /home folder on another disk (a spinny one, because I'm poor). But it seems reinstalling the system comes back mostly as I set it up. I needed to copy the icons and cursors I like to the /usr/... , but that was something I had prepared for already. So, not a big hassle. We'll see where it goes from here. Actually I have been thinking about reinstalling the system for a while, to get rid of all the crap I've added to it, I just never got around to do it. Today I HAD to do it. Not a bad thing, it just took some of my (otherwise useless) time. EDIT: Oh, my personal files, they are backed up on another (password protected) drive that I only spin up when I want to make a backup. The system can change, it's all right but I just want to keep my personal files intact.
I also naively ran out of space back then ... Now since Timeshift is basically a system restore utility, I only use it before update+upgrade, or whenever I install whatever ... I.O.W. set Timeshift to conserve the last known good system MANUALLY before goofing with it😊 + Manually delete obsolete restore points ! NOW MY QUESTION TO YOU : I am cutting my only ssd in half, (half for Linux Mint which is my daily) and half for Debian 12 ... HOW does Timeshift handle that ? Right now I have it on Mint 😅
Thanks for this. Learned something about Pika Backup. Hadn't figured out how to restore data on a completely different system. Fortunately, I'd also backed up with DejaDup, so I was fine. My habit is to put DejaDup on one external drive and Pika on another. Plus I put manually copy files to both drives, tho not as many and not as often. Is that "once burned, thrice shy"? LOL
Time Shift can take up a lot of disk space when used over a long period of time...I discovered this the "hard way", when began to get "disk full" errors on the system.
if anyone had the error 'pika failed to initialize repository local exception' I solved that on LMDE 6 by taking ownership of the target directory using Disks
WHAT is the proper way to set my system up in BTRFS to do backups?? I have Spiral (gnome) in BTRFS, and I have CACHY OS (kde6) in BRTFS- and my DATA is all on a 2T drive that was formatted to EXT4 when I first made it... Tried to change it to BTRFS and reload the files from my second backup-- and it didn't work. IDEAS???
Well so far I was looking to the video the biggest mistake you tell people about is time shift it really should be put on a separate hard drive this is due to what if the hard drive in this system to spontaneously stop working. Things you were taught in Unix systems.
Agreed, I've had a few SSD go bad over the years at randomf, and had to start from scratch, but I never keep any really important files on my boot drive, they are either on a 2nd internal HDD, a USB flash key, or my external USB 3 HDD. Also I messed up some stuff on my Manjaro GNOME install last night on my main machine playing around in the AUR(100% my fault) causing the updates to get in a loop, but I keep a copy of the latest ISO on a USB 3.0 flash drive, and with fast fixed wireless 5G internet I had my entire system back running from scratch, and configured the way I like it in about 30 minutes, and so something like Timeshift would not have been that much of a time saver for me anyways.
timeshift has an annoying cronjob that checks the disk every hour, waking up a sleeping spiny drive. I made a cron job that modifies it after it runs once a week.
Failed to fetch Gonna make me pull out my hair 😤 And that's how I ended up here 7:55 using Devuan... seems that's a mistake... maybe I'd have the same issue with reaching the server debian idk 😮💨
I use Timeshift for years now for ALL linux files, including Home. Personal files are on a separat drive. Best backup solution, not a worry when updating or traying something like Nvidia.
Thank you!! I might be able to make the full switch now, me breaking stuff was one of the issues, lol. I been trying to find something like this.
Timeshift is a great product. Since the Mint team took it over it is even better.
On Windows, I use Syncback SE. It's a great graphical tool for backups. I wish they had a Linux version.
Today I had the Linux Mint 21.1 crash totally. It wouldn't boot even! Well, I think 6 years of trying this and that (and some more) might be the reason. But, I have my LM system on an SSD, and the /home folder on another disk (a spinny one, because I'm poor). But it seems reinstalling the system comes back mostly as I set it up. I needed to copy the icons and cursors I like to the /usr/... , but that was something I had prepared for already. So, not a big hassle. We'll see where it goes from here. Actually I have been thinking about reinstalling the system for a while, to get rid of all the crap I've added to it, I just never got around to do it. Today I HAD to do it. Not a bad thing, it just took some of my (otherwise useless) time.
EDIT: Oh, my personal files, they are backed up on another (password protected) drive that I only spin up when I want to make a backup. The system can change, it's all right but I just want to keep my personal files intact.
I also naively ran out of space back then ...
Now since Timeshift is basically a system restore utility, I only use it before update+upgrade, or whenever I install whatever ...
I.O.W. set Timeshift to conserve the last known good system MANUALLY before goofing with it😊
+ Manually delete obsolete restore points !
NOW MY QUESTION TO YOU :
I am cutting my only ssd in half, (half for Linux Mint which is my daily) and half for Debian 12 ...
HOW does Timeshift handle that ?
Right now I have it on Mint 😅
Thanks for this. Learned something about Pika Backup. Hadn't figured out how to restore data on a completely different system. Fortunately, I'd also backed up with DejaDup, so I was fine. My habit is to put DejaDup on one external drive and Pika on another. Plus I put manually copy files to both drives, tho not as many and not as often. Is that "once burned, thrice shy"? LOL
Time Shift can take up a lot of disk space when used over a long period of time...I discovered this the "hard way", when began to get "disk full" errors on the system.
Not if you use BTRFS
For me that "long period" was under a month 😅 Not a fan of Time Shift.
Edit: And that was on a btrfs partition.
Your settings must not be optimal. My Timeshift uses 25.6GB and rotates 9 snapshots .The total size remains constant.
if anyone had the error 'pika failed to initialize repository local exception' I solved that on LMDE 6 by taking ownership of the target directory using Disks
WHAT is the proper way to set my system up in BTRFS to do backups?? I have Spiral (gnome) in BTRFS, and I have CACHY OS (kde6) in BRTFS- and my DATA is all on a 2T drive that was formatted to EXT4 when I first made it... Tried to change it to BTRFS and reload the files from my second backup-- and it didn't work. IDEAS???
Great video THank you
after the complete mess of the last few system updates, I foresee a lot of new traffic to this video :)
pika doesnt let me schedule backups
Hi can you do a content on how to copy a file from a Linux files to an external hard drive?
Thanks 👍
Well so far I was looking to the video the biggest mistake you tell people about is time shift it really should be put on a separate hard drive this is due to what if the hard drive in this system to spontaneously stop working. Things you were taught in Unix systems.
Agreed, I've had a few SSD go bad over the years at randomf, and had to start from scratch, but I never keep any really important files on my boot drive, they are either on a 2nd internal HDD, a USB flash key, or my external USB 3 HDD.
Also I messed up some stuff on my Manjaro GNOME install last night on my main machine playing around in the AUR(100% my fault) causing the updates to get in a loop, but I keep a copy of the latest ISO on a USB 3.0 flash drive, and with fast fixed wireless 5G internet I had my entire system back running from scratch, and configured the way I like it in about 30 minutes, and so something like Timeshift would not have been that much of a time saver for me anyways.
timeshift has an annoying cronjob that checks the disk every hour, waking up a sleeping spiny drive. I made a cron job that modifies it after it runs once a week.
Failed to fetch
Gonna make me pull out my hair 😤
And that's how I ended up here
7:55 using Devuan... seems that's a mistake... maybe I'd have the same issue with reaching the server debian idk
😮💨