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Timeshift 17.11 has now landed in the test repository.

Timeshift is a system restore utility which takes snapshots
of the system at regular intervals. These snapshots can be restored
at a later date to undo system changes. Creates incremental snapshots
using rsync or BTRFS snapshots using BTRFS tools.

It's pretty simple to use; here's an online guide.

I really liked what I saw.

How do you guys see this as comparing to or integrating with regular use of the MXSnapshot utility and/or aptik? Would Aptik's one-click backup do most or all of timeshift while also assisting in upgrades?

I think in my case my main concern is catastrophic failure of my hard disk and therefore the need to reconstruct the system on a new hard disk, which is why I am so sold on MxSnapshot as MxLinux's killer feature.

But I remember using Windows system restore somewhat regularly, and it might be good to have that capacity again.

So MxSnapshot? Timeshift? Aptik "One-Click Backup"? LuckyBackup?

It would really be helpful to come up with a good conceptual framework.

Till now I've used Timeshift only for backup/restore system. It's fast and I trust it.

The version in the MX Test repo is working well for me. Perhaps it can be moved to Main.

must be in main. Have no test-repos activated and became an update for timeshift. My previous version was the LMDE version. MX version is newer.

my version is 18.9+ds-1~mx17+1

dphn wrote: Fri Dec 21, 2018 11:24 am my version is 18.9+ds-1~mx17+1

So is mine, but I installed from the test repo. I did not check main before installing.

We just moved 18.9 to main because of the positive test reports and also because it reportedly fixed some bugs in the older version.

Timeshift 18.9 has been moved to main, and we now have the latest 19.01 in the test repo.

After a couple of years with Timeshift in Linux Mint, I feel I'm forced to point out that "Systemback" works better.

We have systemback in the repos, too.

According to post at launchpad, systemback is now dead upstream:

Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said on 2018-11-05: #1
See the remark on https://launchpad.net/systemback
* DEVELOPMENT AND SUPPORT ENDED *

https://answers.launchpad.net/systembac ... ion/677230

Stevo wrote: Mon Feb 04, 2019 6:33 pm Timeshift 18.9 has been moved to main, and we now have the latest 19.01 in the test repo.

19.01 installed fine here and runs as expected, no issues to report. However, I just used it to make a snapshot and not to restore from one.

Neither 18.9 or 19.01 are able to select my encrypted root for a snapshot. I used the full disk encryption during install. Guessing I am missing something, but has anyone else run across this also?

http://imgur.com/Wm4icBRl.png