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Timeshift is nice to make things easy. I simply use good old-fashioned rsync tied to a cron job.
So, just today actually, i wiped ubuntu and isntalled pop_os with btrfs. Basically using this walk through and setup Timeshift to manage snapshots.
https://mutschler.dev/linux/pop-os-btrfs-22-04/
but thats not really a backup.
I have a backup box i use for files with rsync and the like. Need to figure out a full backup method to may backup location though.
Might just setup an ansible deployment and call it a day.
I have to say that I used to be a timeshift fan but I’ve started moving to snapper instead. Both are very similar but with snapper you can have multiple configs, one per sub vol. each with different settings. I like having a separate root and home schedules set up. Means I can restore one or the other independently. Works a treat.
Nice. I’ll check it out for sure. That post I followed also i a link to the authors scripts to run a btrfs snap before apt runs.
Frankly I just moved some configs over before I did the wipe. My Linux desktops aren’t too customized.
I had to work around his how to a bit since I use nvme and a pre-partitioned disk that I had to pre-format lvm to (he used a default install run to pre-format the disks)