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.
@TheLinuxEXP3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, it's just so practical and simple !
@phase1geo3 жыл бұрын
Love your Storm Trooper picture in the background!
@TheLinuxEXP3 жыл бұрын
Thanks, I really find it beautiful:)
@simonlauer93793 жыл бұрын
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!
@TheLinuxEXP3 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot :) I try to be as concise as possible, and avoid too much technicality, there are already ple ty of channels focused on more advanced things :)
@latinritemass3 жыл бұрын
Timeshift + BackInTime = Complete and awesome backup solution! I use DeLinuxCo and both come preinstalled.
@furiousfellow15833 жыл бұрын
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
@lawrencedoliveiro91043 жыл бұрын
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.
@88362903 жыл бұрын
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.
@luizotavio21163 жыл бұрын
I really enjoy this new video format with you showing up. Some eye candy is always welcome!
@TheLinuxEXP3 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot ;)
@billgross35793 жыл бұрын
This is a helpful video worth paying attention to. Timeshift has saved my bacon more than once. I had to learn the hard way.
@andrewobuchow3 жыл бұрын
This is definitely one of my fav Linux related channels on KZfaq :) great video !
@TheLinuxEXP3 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much :)
@egoworks56112 ай бұрын
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.
@StringerNews13 жыл бұрын
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!
@logicbug6 ай бұрын
In my experience with SCO, we used removable scsi drives, so once our system was working, we would make a complete copy of it. In the industry it was used, it was needing to be immediately recoverable, so just swapping the system disk and then do a tape restore fixed the problem. I'm talking about 25 years ago, and I really appreciate Linux now.
@StringerNews16 ай бұрын
@@logicbug that happened in 1998, so about 25 years ago. I forget the tape software, but it required boot floppies that weren't on site. It was my first day on the job, BTW. I spent the entire day in the computer closet! On the plus side, SCO had a nice program that allowed me to run a free SCO UNIX desktop, so I never had to practice on the production machine.
@ashutoshmourya47483 жыл бұрын
Thank you this video was really necessary to make people aware of such an awesome utility
@TheLinuxEXP3 жыл бұрын
You're welcome :)
@hari93213 жыл бұрын
Timeshift is life saver at times. Great software .
@imedjendoubi64013 жыл бұрын
I like the new camera angle
@TheLinuxEXP3 жыл бұрын
Thank you, I wanted to switch things up a little :)
@AnzanHoshinRoshi3 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Nick. Time Shift is great.
@TheLinuxEXP3 жыл бұрын
It really is !
@johnbamber73743 жыл бұрын
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.
@Leuvierre3 жыл бұрын
It is installed by default on the XFCE version as well. Most likely KDE version has it too.
@JoussefJouda3 жыл бұрын
Timeshift is a live saver!
@TheLinuxEXP3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely !
@maflo59712 жыл бұрын
This video is so nicely made! it is compelling to listen and actually has the informations i'm looking for.
@MrAwesomeBikerDude3 жыл бұрын
Take a look at ZFS! Specially Snapshots and Replication, maintenance-free backup system. I think I'm in love and her name is ZFS.
@lauriekimani3 жыл бұрын
I actually like breaking my system. Fixing a breakage is how I learn about linux and have fun..
@rickcontreras593 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for showing us how to back up our stuff yay
@luigitech31693 жыл бұрын
If you use BTRFS I raccomend btrbk, it's more advanced but it does a great job
@misterdinosaur98183 жыл бұрын
Timeshift + Deja Dup gets me out of trouble after I frequent wreck my distro (my ambition out-ways my ability!)
@hooami62453 жыл бұрын
that stormtrooper picture tho. sick!
@elimgarak35973 жыл бұрын
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.
@IngwiePhoenix3 жыл бұрын
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 :)
@JahidulIslam3 жыл бұрын
Deja dup. You can also create a tar.gz archive of dot(.) files and folders.
@JahidulIslam2 жыл бұрын
@matthdapps use Time Shift for system backup(root folder)and deja dup for home backup. Actually it is easier to backup home. You can just create a tar archive (tar.gz/tar.xz etc).
@user-hh7lo1mn2r Жыл бұрын
@@JahidulIslamdeja dup?
@JahidulIslam Жыл бұрын
@@user-hh7lo1mn2r it's a backup software
@user-hh7lo1mn2r Жыл бұрын
@@JahidulIslam okk
@zxph Жыл бұрын
Nice wall art!
@DimitrisChr3 жыл бұрын
Timeshift is great. Saved my Arch install a couple of times when updates messed up boot.
@pretendawatch3 жыл бұрын
Love this new style of video!
@TheLinuxEXP3 жыл бұрын
Thank you :) I wanted to change things up a bit !
@marinlos3 жыл бұрын
I've used it and it works great
@yousupreme3 жыл бұрын
First time I like a sponsor message :D
@TheLinuxEXP3 жыл бұрын
Nice :) Safing are great !
@Steven_nevetS3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, Time Shift is very very good!
@alexandervasilyev44183 жыл бұрын
timeshift already helped me to restore system :) Thanks!
@TheLinuxEXP3 жыл бұрын
You're welcome :)
@siphiwokobese439811 ай бұрын
Would have lost a massive dev project without Timeshift. Recommended
@kendarr2 жыл бұрын
I used deja dup backup, not knowing it only backuped the home, soooo time to re install
@davidwayne99822 жыл бұрын
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.
@michadybczak48623 жыл бұрын
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 :(
@uzefulvideos34403 жыл бұрын
I guess that's only happening with rsync? Wouldn't make sense with Btrfs.
@michadybczak48623 жыл бұрын
@@uzefulvideos3440 Yes, rsync. As I understand it, I can't change the method as I have ext4 file system on my external HDD, plus rsync uses less space (incremental backups).
@uzefulvideos34403 жыл бұрын
@@michadybczak4862 Btrfs system snapshots can share blocks with the source subvolume, which means only unique blocks will consume additional space. Btrfs system snapshots will generally consume less space than Rsync incremental backups. In addition to that Btrfs also supports file system compression. Btw, I've written a guide on how to move a Linux installation from ext4 to Btrfs subvolumes not too long ago: osdn.net/projects/rebornos/wiki/Btrfs+system+snapshots+and+rollbacks+with+Timeshift
@hyperspeed13133 жыл бұрын
BTRFS's official name B-Tree File System. For all the variations you used, I'm surprised you didn't use the official name.
@AssTelescope3 жыл бұрын
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.
@mekuranda3 жыл бұрын
That is why I do my work on a VM so I can just copy a running system. And if needed ...I can move my installation to different hardware
@lawrencedoliveiro91043 жыл бұрын
Just use rsync to copy all the OS files. It’s easy to restore them to another disk. Then just fix up the bootloader, edit /etc/fstab for any changed device/partition names, and you’re good to go. I’ve done this lots of times, for upgrading hard drives.
@AssTelescope3 жыл бұрын
@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 what your describing here is a lot of work compared to how easy this is in windows. Seriously, fix up the boot loader? I don't want to deal with that , I want a full disk backup with regular snapshots taken and for me to just restore a single image to a disk and be done. I know some people don't want to hear it but windows is the winner in this department.
@AssTelescope3 жыл бұрын
@@mekuranda I do this too for when I need yo work with windows but running VM is slow for me since I do a lot of software development.
@lawrencedoliveiro91043 жыл бұрын
@@AssTelescope Try moving a Windows installation to a different disk, and tell me which one is a “lot of work”.
@manen_3 жыл бұрын
I like the new background
@TheLinuxEXP3 жыл бұрын
Thanks :) A bit less busy, but I'll experiment more :)
@harrytrueman42163 жыл бұрын
Can you review the port master application? It looks interesting but still in Alpha.
@haji_amzar3 жыл бұрын
great video
@TheLinuxEXP3 жыл бұрын
Thanks !
@theprimordialdude11383 жыл бұрын
Yah you are right man its really awesome...
@creative-commons-videos3 жыл бұрын
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 ?
@vcprocles3 жыл бұрын
By default no, but you can turn it on during initial setup
@khandarwilliam54393 жыл бұрын
every time i upgrade Mint, the guide always says to create Time Shift snapshot first
@DunderHead.5000 Жыл бұрын
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.?
@satoshiborishi68982 жыл бұрын
Very informative
@techgeek11623 жыл бұрын
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 ?
@ziyad7780 Жыл бұрын
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?
@transmitthis2 жыл бұрын
"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?
@proptart79333 жыл бұрын
This is great for system backups! What software do people recommend for backing up user files / documents?
@TheLinuxEXP3 жыл бұрын
BackInTime :)
@proptart79333 жыл бұрын
@@TheLinuxEXP Sweet, I'll check that out. Thanks!
@tuberkkcoolio5059 Жыл бұрын
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 ?
@David_Quinn_Photography Жыл бұрын
is there a way to get it to back up the files to a NAS or will I have to manually do that?
@markosaric999411 ай бұрын
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?
@HobbsBhipp3 жыл бұрын
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?
@passionatelove75622 жыл бұрын
I have dell laptop already has Linux on it I installed windows 10 is there any possibility to get back
@SDWNJ3 жыл бұрын
For ~/ backups, take a look at cronopete: www.rastersoft.com/programas/cronopete.html
@CAZOlsen3 жыл бұрын
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
@rockymarquiss8327 Жыл бұрын
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
@xscale3 жыл бұрын
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.
@haji_amzar3 жыл бұрын
can you make tutorial on installing arch?
@daniel07l3 жыл бұрын
Look here: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide If you find it too difficult and still want to use arch, I'd recommend Manjaro or EndeveorOS
@uzefulvideos34403 жыл бұрын
I can also recommend RebornOS and Garuda Linux.
@motherboardbroken23053 жыл бұрын
What do you mean by user config files 1:37 will time-shift not be able restore my extensions and its configs?
@TheLinuxEXP3 жыл бұрын
No, it only works on system files, not user files
@motherboardbroken23053 жыл бұрын
@@TheLinuxEXP and like always, i did not get a notification when you replied. Well my system crashed for a reason ig. not exactly a crash but idk can i go in detail?
@chairman672 жыл бұрын
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.
@user-hh7lo1mn2r Жыл бұрын
Does it backup Virtual machines too?
@kindnessasgreatasthesea11583 жыл бұрын
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?
@prabinacharya32663 жыл бұрын
Yes, it replaces the files of /home / swap everything and brings back the whole system. Even if you format the whole disk
@HellcatM3 жыл бұрын
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.
@battlebuddy45173 жыл бұрын
I fear if it free and it getting advertisements something bad gotta be about them or im over thinking
@advaitc25543 жыл бұрын
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!
@TheLinuxEXP3 жыл бұрын
Technically they should be backed up as well
@advaitc25543 жыл бұрын
@@TheLinuxEXP Good news. Thanks! My Timeshift Rsync backup just successfully finished to my external BTRFS formatted drive.
@advaitc25543 жыл бұрын
@@TheLinuxEXP Which Fedora compatible backup program creates a 'bootable' backup? I want to make a bootable full image (including home direc) of my main nvme drive to an identical nvme drive in Slot 2. So if my nvme drive in Slot 1 dies, I just boot into Slot 2. (My laptop has 2 easy to access nvme slots.)
@daivomjoshi562 жыл бұрын
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 ?
@namelesske3 жыл бұрын
Be careful it's just a lazy backup tool, don't trust it on mission critical systems and do proper backups.
@debeeriz3 жыл бұрын
it has never let me down yet and i have been using it since mint 17, but i did read when a recent mint 20 iso could not be
@namelesske3 жыл бұрын
@@debeeriz The worst thing when a backup is not working. Deja Dup is a must.
@odnankenobi Жыл бұрын
Agreed
@user-hh7lo1mn2r Жыл бұрын
@@namelesskewhat is deja dup?
@Hardbootbu3 жыл бұрын
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 .
@LEO-xo9cz3 жыл бұрын
Great video. How do I put Timeshift onto a USB?
@cbrnix3 жыл бұрын
Don't you have a problem with the Elementary? Last time I tried to use it, / kept falling
@TheLinuxEXP3 жыл бұрын
Not me, everything works fine :)
@Im_SaikatSarkar3 жыл бұрын
Watching this video siting on Tajmahal .
@moritzschafer5023 жыл бұрын
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!
@StephenYT.3 жыл бұрын
is possible use it via terminal? and how to restore?
@SeanClarke3 жыл бұрын
I just upgraded my timeshift drive from 500 MB to 1 GB.
@PinakiGupta82Appu3 жыл бұрын
Time shift+FreeFileSync+GRSync.
@rraghur965 Жыл бұрын
Borg ftw
@rickbhattacharya23343 жыл бұрын
But i thought nuking the system and installing it from the start is the fun part of Linux :(
@TheLinuxEXP3 жыл бұрын
It's part of the fun, but at some point you also need a way to not lose a whole day :)
@djadja1683 жыл бұрын
timeshift on a RAID 1. i just cant lose data :)
@J3zu53 жыл бұрын
make a video about deja dup.
@HenrikWittenberg3 жыл бұрын
I prefer Vorta with Borg Backup over it.
@perdomot3 жыл бұрын
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.
@TheLinuxEXP3 жыл бұрын
Linux does not really support NTFs that well, it's not an open filesystem :)
@perdomot3 жыл бұрын
@@TheLinuxEXP I've used NTFS Config for years now and never had an issue mounting my NTFS drive so I think they can do it if they want.
@TheLinuxEXP3 жыл бұрын
Problem is, NTFS is a windows filesystem, and OS can't differentiate between filenames with lower case and upper case. So if you use that drive in windows, and that OS decides that two files that have the same name should not exist, your backup might be broken. I think it might be the reason why it won't work on NTFS filesystems :)
@perdomot3 жыл бұрын
@@TheLinuxEXP Thanks for the info. You might be interested in the Snapshot tool in MX Linux that creates an iso image of your drive that you can burn to a thumb drive. Really handy if you have to reinstall your OS because all you apps and settings get set up when you install.
@hermannschaefer47773 жыл бұрын
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.
@kroninid55703 жыл бұрын
Timeshift save my systems many times.
@TheLinuxEXP3 жыл бұрын
It's fantastic !
@spongeybobu3 жыл бұрын
You should show more of the Timeshift screen and not your face
@ziul.3124 Жыл бұрын
😂👍
@bungnugget Жыл бұрын
This video is misleading. Snapshots are not backups.
@tralphstreet3 жыл бұрын
Nick doesn't show us how to use it because he destroyed his system and found out about Timeshift then.
@TheLinuxEXP3 жыл бұрын
Nooooo. Yes. Maybe. I don't want to talk about it.
@tralphstreet3 жыл бұрын
@@TheLinuxEXP Called it!
@TheLinuxEXP3 жыл бұрын
I had planned to make a video out of it before, and started using it, and then I destroyed my system by playing around with IPV6 😅
@XTF13 жыл бұрын
xfs reflinks ftw
@tomaszgasior7723 жыл бұрын
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).
@TheLinuxEXP3 жыл бұрын
You can join Safing's AMA until the 24th of September 2020 here: www.reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/comments/iv6mca/we_are_safing_a_forprivacy_counterculture_company/
@tasvirmahmood35583 жыл бұрын
You didn't explain properly how to restore. You absolutely rushed through that part.