Installing Timeshift in Solus

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.

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

Are we there yet?

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.

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

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

Justin After installed dcrone is working fine.

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.

algent No, that's eopkg doing its job.

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

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...

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...

MarioC I'm aware of the main limitation of Timeshift on Solus

If you really understand this, I'm amazed that you would try to make a deprecated 2008 application run on Solus today. And I suspect that a friendly Solus moderator will soon come along and ask you to start a new thread, instead of resurrecting one from more than three years ago.

With that said, I'll suggest something that I discovered many years ago when I also asked about making Timeshift run on Solus. (I had also used it on other distros before I found Solus.) There's an excellent backup program in the Solus repository that is very simple to use. It's called Restic, and for years I've used it to perform a backup prior to every weekly update. And there are other occasions when creating a backup first makes sense, before you do something that's risky.

Not long ago I documented how easy it is to use in a post I made here.

I've never needed to restore a Restic backup personally, due to the care the Solus team takes with updates, but the person I wrote the above post for did just that, and happily confirmed that it worked just as it should.

MarioC https://github.com/teejee2008/Timeshift/releases.

That is an old repo for timeshift, now timeshift is under Linux Mint banner on this repo https://github.com/linuxmint/timeshift/. There is an new instruction on how to build/install it yourself. Good luck

WetGeek

Many thanks for your instructions on Restic, which I'll try to digest as soon as possible. (Although I tried many different distroes along the years, I'm still a beginner because for work I have to spend most of my time on Windows.)