Installing Timeshift in Solus

kyrios

Just a small parenthesis: in case some of you are just looking for a backup tool with a graphical interface, Vorta has been packaged and should hopefully be available soon. Vorta is a GUI for BorgBackup.

johano

kyrios Just had a look at Vorta - it seems very interesting and likely will be very useful. I look forward to trying it on its arrival in the repo. Thanks for pointing it out, I was unaware of it. Since I started with Solus, I've been using borg, instead of Backintime, to backup home (automated via a systemd timer and a script).

I find Timeshift does excel at snapshot and restoration of the system partition - with the greatest of ease - and while not in the curated Solus repo, up to now I've found it has not failed or caused any issue.

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kyrios not sure if this is the right place to ask but here goes: when you guys say something is packaged do you mean by Solus crew? Which brings me to the mentioning of "next sync" what does that mean, from where/who/what to where/who/what??

olivir

kyrios I use DejaDup to backup my work from my Desktop machine to a NAS. Is there any advantage to migrate to Vorta and Borg ? I suppose deduplication is the big difference.

yursan9

[deleted] It can be packaged by Solus Core Team or by community member that contributed to packaging application for Solus. Solus have two channel for packages distribution, Unstable and Stable. All new packages should go to unstable for testing. Every friday Solus will sync the stable channel with the unstable. Then all the new packages or packages update will be available to user in stable channel.

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yursan9 Aah, thanks man, appreciate it!

johano

olivir I like that with borg you can mount the backup repo and browse the files and copy what you need to wherever you want. The last time I tried Dejá Dup - there was no way browse the backup archive - I don't know if that's still the case?
borg does handle use of space economically (deja Dup also attempts to minimise space used).

Essentially borg boils down to creating a backup repository; creating the backup; and later you can mount the backup repo to retrieve whatever content you want and unmount the repo when done; but it takes some investigation time to get started. Looks like Vorta may make it far simpler to get going.

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johano i tried Deja earlier today and it was as you said: couldnt extract a single file but rather had to restore the entire folder to a location of choice and then you could extract whatever. In short a no thanks from me 🙂 Looking forward to giving Vorta a try!

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https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/02/securely-and-efficiently-backup-data-on.html

Are we there yet? 😅

olivir

Oh great ! 👍

Backup profiles. These can be used to backup different sources to different destinations, using the same SSH keys. For example, this allows backing up some important files to a remote server, while doing a full backup to a local storage device.

algent

johano Tried it myselt and stuck on dcron thing. Thank you for providing the link to donwload it.

Justin

algent Where did you get stuck? Is there an error message?

algent

Justin After installed dcrone is working fine.

algent

Justin The only boring thing that I have noticed is that I have to reinstall manually dcron-4.5-3-1-x86_64.eopkg after every update to make Timeshift to work. I don't know why it get uninstalled.

JoshStrobl

algent Because dcron was deprecated from the repo (4 months ago). Timeshift isn't supported because it doesn't support and utilize systemd timers, but rather assumes and requires crontab.

Justin

algent dcron is quite easy to compile. I did it when testing timeshift for another user a few months ago. So if you really do want timeshift, give it a go.

Quick instructions:

wget http://www.jimpryor.net/linux/releases/dcron-4.5.tar.gz
tar xvf dcron-4.5.tar.gz
cd dcron-4.5
sudo eopkg it -c system.devel
make PREFIX=/usr CRONTAB_GROUP=users
sudo make install

algent

JoshStrobl Is any way to stop the automatic uninstall of dcron?

JoshStrobl

algent No, that's eopkg doing its job.

arnepedia

Hi @all.

I tried to clean up my solus a little and messed around with timeshift. After deleting all snapshots manually and permanently, I'm contiously running into two problems:
1) I can't unistall Timeshift. No chance at all. The unistall-command says "unknown command". Neither eopkg remove nor timeshift --unistall are working (as root)
2) When I try to remove all dependencies, there is a horrible list of depending packages, affect by removen libgee etc. There are packagase like KDEs KMail, Gnome-GUI, GDM list and will be removed. I'm really afraid to hit yes, remove, as I'think my system will be fragged than.

Any ideas and/or experiences on that topics?

In the end I just want to replace deja-dup an timeshift (which I never really used) with Vorta on a lean system...

DasJott

Is there an equal solution suggested from the Solus team?

I really liked Timeshift on Manjaro (also because I needed it regularly). Easy to use and it simply works.
But I understand if it is not running stable and reliable on Solus, they don't want to have it in there.

Even though Solus runs prefectly fine than no other Linux I experienced ever did, I would like to have something there, that could help, if it is needed...

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