The feature to restore the whole system from a different distribution or even Live USB really blew me away. Tried it myself a couple weeks ago (went back to Kubuntu from a Debian installation). Must have application. It reminds me of Android full system backup from Recovery such as TWRP.

Love your Storm Trooper picture in the background!

I think your channel is an excellent bridge for those new to Linux as your content is not focused on technical details but rather informs about the incredible things you can do on a Linux machine. As such I think it is also very informative for more experienced users. Subscribed!

Timeshift + BackInTime = Complete and awesome backup solution! I use DeLinuxCo and both come preinstalled.

knowing how to use timeshift form the command line has been really valuable for me, since the times I have had to restore I barely manage to get to tty

The clever thing about rsync is that incremental backups can be made to look just like full backups for restoration purposes. Yet you still get the deduping of files that haven’t changed.

Yes please, do those example videos you mentioned. I consider myself relatively new on Linux OSs and would love to see how backup works. I use timeshift till now, but thank God, never had to restore from it, yet.

I really enjoy this new video format with you showing up. Some eye candy is always welcome!

This is a helpful video worth paying attention to. Timeshift has saved my bacon more than once. I had to learn the hard way.

This is definitely one of my fav Linux related channels on KZfaq :) great video !

Sir, you're always concise and quick. Thank you for this clear explanation. Thanks to this I understood what I really needed to back up. Thank you.

I started using rsync to back up user files about 20 years ago, and kept using it til most people in my life moved from computers to tablets & phones with "the cloud". I remember having a SCO UNIX machine kernel panic and shut down right in front of me, and restoring the system image using a boot floppy and the previous night's tape backup. As a Linux user I was appalled that I couldn't boot SCO UNIX from a live CD and mount the SysV partitions to get a clue what happened. I couldn't preserve the log files in /var either; the restore wiped them all out so I never knew what happened. Talk about feeling helpless!

Thank you this video was really necessary to make people aware of such an awesome utility

Timeshift is life saver at times. Great software .

I like the new camera angle

Thank you, Nick. Time Shift is great.

Timeshift does come by default with the Gnome version of Manjaro last I checked at least. As an avid Manjaro user, I appreciate the mention.

Timeshift is a live saver!

This video is so nicely made! it is compelling to listen and actually has the informations i'm looking for.

Take a look at ZFS! Specially Snapshots and Replication, maintenance-free backup system. I think I'm in love and her name is ZFS.

I actually like breaking my system. Fixing a breakage is how I learn about linux and have fun..

Thank you so much for showing us how to back up our stuff yay

If you use BTRFS I raccomend btrbk, it's more advanced but it does a great job

Timeshift + Deja Dup gets me out of trouble after I frequent wreck my distro (my ambition out-ways my ability!)

that stormtrooper picture tho. sick!

This is crazy because I just bought a 1 TB external HDD for backup today. I am using duplicity now because I didn't see this video when I started the full backup. I might give this a try some other time.

Time Shift looks very awesome! I am still looking for a good backup solution for my home folder too. I hope you will also review other backup solutions as well :)

Nice wall art!

Timeshift is great. Saved my Arch install a couple of times when updates messed up boot.

Love this new style of video!

I've used it and it works great

First time I like a sponsor message :D

Yeah, Time Shift is very very good!

timeshift already helped me to restore system :) Thanks!

Would have lost a massive dev project without Timeshift. Recommended

I used deja dup backup, not knowing it only backuped the home, soooo time to re install

I LOVE TIMESHIFT--- found out day before yesterday it WILL NOT WORK ON FEDORA... so I got RID of Fedora (for other reasons too-- I just didn't like it).. BUT I use TIMESHIFT on everything I have. It's saved my butt many times so far.

Currently, the only fully working version of Timeshift is 19.01. After that it got broken by its developer, who disabled ability to back up package cache files (installable package files), at least on Arch based systems. So with newer versions, I could browse the backup to find those files and install a package again. This is especially important with git packages, because they are not backed properly in the cache, but overwritten, so when you want an older, better working version, you have to look it on the backup. There are other reasons why someone would want to have access to cache files that are no longer accessible in repo. So Timeshift lost ability to backup completely root and I had to go back to the last good version - 19.01 I submitted a topic discussing this issue but the developer doesn't seem to be interested in it, so I assume Timeshift is still broken and as far I recall, the developer stopped developing the program as it got disappointed he didn't earn much money from it, so he cut the time he spent on it. If I'm wrong and that function was brought back silently, let me know. This left us with awkward and awful place, where there is only one the best backup app - Timeshift, but it's not developed or supported properly, with broken function :(

BTRFS's official name B-Tree File System. For all the variations you used, I'm surprised you didn't use the official name.

The problem I have with all Linux backup software is a lack of a full disk backup in the event of a disk failure. When I was a windows user I had full disk backup and when my drive eventually died all i did was buy a new disk and write the backup image and I was up and running in a couple of hours. No such software exists on Linux. Timeshift is good for rollbacks, that's it Great video nonetheless.

I like the new background

Can you review the port master application? It looks interesting but still in Alpha.

great video

Yah you are right man its really awesome...

Will it work cross distro ? Like if I have installed mint and then I installed pop os, can I get all data installed on mint on pop os ?

every time i upgrade Mint, the guide always says to create Time Shift snapshot first

I'm looking for a full system backup on a secondary drive to be updated occasionally so if I have a HDD or SSD fatal crash, I can just pop in the other drive and be up and running again. Will TimeShift do this with custom changes made to OS and custom addresses etc.?

Very informative

All sounds good. I am not talking about virtual box linux systems. Let's say my system get's wacky can't boot. possibly grub or mbr or something. I had taken timeshift snapshot on a separate drive. Now I have to run around for a live install to find who has timeshift included in their liveCD . Why not use clonezilla to backup and restore ?

I tried to do it on my flash drive but I couldn't select it due to this error "The external hard drive does not have a linux partition" any idea?

"BTRFS -Snapshots are saved to /timeshift ... Other locations not supported" t=208, Yet you say you can store them on an External Drives? What am I being confused by here?

This is great for system backups! What software do people recommend for backing up user files / documents?

PLS HELP Why should i use backintime when timefshift offers the option to backup files "include all files" ? it make sense to exclude them... but why not include ? If i would do a backup daily my files would be save.... or no ?

is there a way to get it to back up the files to a NAS or will I have to manually do that?

Is it possible to automate the restore? I want to make a single snapshot and have the system restore to it on each boot. Can that be done?

I'm a linux newbie who made three Timeshift snapshots before I made a couple of distro hop installations. I settled with linux mint 20.1 and after watching numerous vidoes on this , I still can't find my downloads , pics, & videos from my old installation with the snapshots - please can someone help?

I have dell laptop already has Linux on it I installed windows 10 is there any possibility to get back

For ~/ backups, take a look at cronopete: www.rastersoft.com/programas/cronopete.html

just did a restore today on my intel NUC today took all nessesary precautions Did a backup before i started experimenting Save files on my nextcloud instance bascially prepaired everything Off course i something went wrong and i decided to do a restore from snapstore this first time I have tried it Set timeshift to restore at i took some time so i went out When i came back the intel NUC could not start but was on So i had to force turn off the NUC After this it kept me in a loop of initramfs I try to do a fresh install of pop os and then restore again from snapshot Figureing that something went wrong But i lost all backups on the hard drive i have no idea how that happend I even lost the backups on another partition that i dont use with this pc I am very confused as to what Happend / went wrong

Great tool for Ubuntu distros. I installed it on Suse and you try to restore a snapshot and it whines it can't because it's bit ubuntu

timeshift lets me back up home if I want to ... so why not? I exclude download and any binaries I build, and it's not like a microsd is expensive, and incremental backups don't take much space anyway so ... I think I must be misunderstanding something.

can you make tutorial on installing arch?

What do you mean by user config files 1:37 will time-shift not be able restore my extensions and its configs?

Is it easy (or possible) to restore a Timeshift backup to an operating system installed in an LVM container volume on a LUKS encrypted partition ? Typically on a laptop that has the OS installed with encryption.

Does it backup Virtual machines too?

Thanks! So that means that if I backup my Timeshift snapshots on an external disk, I can afterwards install the system snapshot on another disk that has no operating system installed (only has partitions like /, /home, /swap and such) as if I never switched disks?

One day I was trying out different launchers on KDE and one of them blacked out my screens, couldn't see anything. I went into another distro that was on a live thumb drive and ran Timeshift, if found my backups, clicked on the latest one, it looked like it was going to work, but when I logged in still had the black screen. I tried another, same thing. I don't know what I did wrong.

I fear if it free and it getting advertisements something bad gotta be about them or im over thinking

Great video. Thx! Linux newbie here. Just switched from Windows 10 to Fedora. I'm now doing my first backup of my Fedora 34 BTRFS system. I'm using Timeshift Rsync. I'm now backing up all my files (including home direc) to an external hard drive. Does Timeshift Rsync skip open files? Or do all open files also get backed up? Thx!

Hi i needed your help. If i use timeshift on my KDE NEON distro, and include /home directory, Then will it backup my WHOLE settings data (Incl. themes, fonts, customizations, widgets etc.) as it is ? Also will I be able to get my WHOLE KDE NEON as it is (Same settings and customization) with timeshift snapshot ?

Be careful it's just a lazy backup tool, don't trust it on mission critical systems and do proper backups.

if i am to use another distro i would probably use it , but openSuse snapper fill my needs , save me a lot of troubles but i don't think they do exactly the same thing .

Great video. How do I put Timeshift onto a USB?

Don't you have a problem with the Elementary? Last time I tried to use it, / kept falling

Watching this video siting on Tajmahal .

Thanks for the video! I was quite happy when I found timeshift (it came preinstalled with Mint). I need to know where ot get this Storm trooper image, it's amazing!

is possible use it via terminal? and how to restore?

I just upgraded my timeshift drive from 500 MB to 1 GB.

Time shift+FreeFileSync+GRSync.

Borg ftw

But i thought nuking the system and installing it from the start is the fun part of Linux :(

timeshift on a RAID 1. i just cant lose data :)

make a video about deja dup.

What I don't like about Timeshift is that it won't create its backup in an NTFS partition. I have my documents on a separate SSD that uses NTFS and wanted to use that but Timeshift wont work with Windows file systems. Hope they add that soon.

Yes, timeshift is good. But, tbh, once you worked with its original, the Mac timemachine, you will see some not-that-well things. Timemachine eg. backups every hour and does this very fast, thanks to the Mac-included-file-system-changes-log-daemon, the fsevents-daemon (fseventsd). Linux really needs a similar good one, inotify is not good enough - yet.

Timeshift save my systems many times.

You should show more of the Timeshift screen and not your face

😂👍

This video is misleading. Snapshots are not backups.

Nick doesn't show us how to use it because he destroyed his system and found out about Timeshift then.

xfs reflinks ftw

GUI design looks Cinnamon like, so this seems to be Linux Mint related project which makes it less valuable for me since I don't want to use tools from non-mainstream distros but that's minor issue. The biggest problem I see is thatTimeshift's GUI runs as root which is very bad practice and shows that app authors don't understand how to properly create apps for Linux in 2020. On Fedora using Timeshift for a few seconds crashed my whole desktop session. Bad experience. Uninstalled after first try. I will stay with Clonezilla, without fancy easy-to-use GUI but based on solid fundaments (Ubuntu, Debian).

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You didn't explain properly how to restore. You absolutely rushed through that part.

second comment?

So no practical tutorial. Wasted my time here.