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Timeshift just saved my Mint Install (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Well this was a fun way to start my day. I was trying to install Davinci Resolve on my Mint PC (since Mint 22 broke some of Resolves dependencies), and it was still giving the warning of missing dependencies.

One of the dependencies libasound2 couldn't install but apt recommended 2 others. Tried both and non worked. So I decided to uninstall both, and then Cinnamon Setting disappeared. I tried to fix it by reinstalling Cinnamon itself, but yeah... on reboot it would crash on the Mint file check.

However after trying the Recovery mode to get access to the terminal. I was able to access Timeshift, get the backup from yesterday and I'm back up and running.

So happy I enabled Timeshift. Hurray for safety nets actually working to protect me from myself.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's an interesting story. Thanks for sharing.

I just bought a big ass 8TB desktop external drive for backup purposes since I'm going to go full Linux soon on my PC after a little incident with my SSD. That incident got me thinking about doing backups.

I haven't looked at the tools available in Linux for this yet. Are there other alternatives to Timeshift?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Are there other alternatives to Timeshift?

Snapper is the only other one I know of.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

These both work on a running mounting OS partitions?
Old school and inconvenient, I'd just boot up a live usb and gparted a copy so no files are in use. Rsync [frontends] for maintenance if needed while booted into the OS.