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Add Timeshift #473

Open Riotvan81 opened 5 years ago

Riotvan81 commented 5 years ago

Could you please add a bundle with Timeshift? I think it's a very powerful backup tool that has saved my hide more then a couple of times. As far as i can tell there aren't any backup solutions that come close, even more so when using btrfs.

thiagomacieira commented 5 years ago

Link to Fedora repo: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/timeshift

Another one to consider is Snapper, which works with BTRFS snapshotting as well as with LVM thin snapshots. I've got it on my existing OpenSUSE system. Links: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/snapper, https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Factory/snapper, https://snapper.io

thiagomacieira commented 5 years ago

BTW, I use borgbackup (available in Clear) to back up the contents of the snapshots, then rsync it to an offline storage in the Cloud. Borgbackup deduplicates content and encrypts.

oshanz commented 2 years ago

It seems like Btrfs is still not officially supported by Clear.

https://github.com/clearlinux/distribution/issues/2257#issuecomment-761887957

So there is no way to roll back updates when got an issue?

bryteise commented 2 years ago

@oshanz We do have installer support and I have been using btrfs as the rootfs partition (with my own custom snapshotting setup) on Clear for a number of months now without issue.

I still need to try building timeshift though X(.