Timeshift: System Restore Tool for Linux

Post by bulletmarker » Tue, Jul 23, 2024, 12:52 PM UTC

pixelmonkey wrote: post #38

I've probably spent way too much time thinking about Linux backup over the years. But thankfully, I found a setup that works really well for me in 2018 or so, used it for the last few years, and I wrote up a detailed blog post about it just a month ago: https://amontalenti.com/2024/06/19/backups-restic-rclone The tools I use on Linux for backup are restic + rclone, storing my restic repo on a speedy USB3 SSD. For off…

Post by dataflow » Tue, Jul 23, 2024, 12:58 PM UTC

Shorel wrote: post #118

My system is different and simpler: The root partition / and the home partition /home are different. There's a /home/etc/ folder with a very small set of configuration files I want to save, everything else is nuked on reinstall. When I do a reinstall, the root partition is formatted, the /home partition is not. This allows me to test different distros and not be tied to any particular distro or any particular backup…

Post by pixelmonkey » Tue, Jul 23, 2024, 1:05 PM UTC

carderne wrote: post #122

pixelmonkey wrote: post #38

I've probably spent way too much time thinking about Linux backup over the years. But thankfully, I found a setup that works really well for me in 2018 or so, used it for the last few years, and I wrote up a detailed blog post about it just a month ago: https://amontalenti.com/2024/06/19/backups-restic-rclone The tools I use on Linux for backup are restic + rclone, storing my restic repo on a speedy USB3 SSD. For off…

Enjoyed the post, thanks. One question: why don’t you use restic+rclone on macOS? They both support it and I’d assume you could simplify your system a bit…

Post by michaelmior » Tue, Jul 23, 2024, 1:15 PM UTC

birdiesanders wrote: post #124

ijustlovemath wrote: post #120

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/home/etc or ~/etc?

Those are equivalent.

Post by pmarreck » Tue, Jul 23, 2024, 1:22 PM UTC

rrix2 wrote: post #68

pmarreck wrote: post #52

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While it's not quite average-user-friendly (YET), one of the reasons I switched to NixOS is because it provides this out-of-the-box. I was frustrated with every other Linux for the reasons you cite, but NixOS I can deal with, since 1) screwing up the integrity of a system install is hard to begin with, 2) if you DO manage to do it, you can reboot into any of N previous system updates (where you set N). Linux is simul…

NixOS also has out of the box support for zfs auto snapshots, where you can tell it to keep 3 months, four weeks, 24 hourly, and frequent snapshots evert fifteen minutes so you can time shift your home directory, too