Open lamyergeier opened 1 year ago
Why do you need to define the directory? Even though all the snapshots are stored in the same directory, each one is identified by a unique id, e.g.
2023-05-26_21-35-47/info.json: "sys-uuid" : "7faa9544-2300-45d5-baf2-68f2ba22a4e4",
2023-05-26_21-47-52/info.json: "sys-uuid" : "7faa9544-2300-45d5-baf2-68f2ba22a4e4",
2023-05-26_22-44-13/info.json: "sys-uuid" : "77f3a8c7-a239-43e3-8d83-ecb50ae12b16",
Indeed, timeshift-gtk displays distro name as well, so one can restore the right snapshot, but it's not the case when you're stuck with the terminal only.
So, I've been using the startup script below which checks the current distro, and makes sure that the timeshift back folder for the other distro is renamed as "timeshift_
distro="$(lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null)"
timeshift="$(ls "</Backup/Device/Path>" | grep "timeshift_" | awk -F "_" '{print $2}')"
my_password=<Password>
if [[ "$distro" == "$timeshift" ]]; then
if [[ "$distro" == "<Distro1>" ]]; then
echo $my_password | sudo -S mv "</Backup/Device/Path>/timeshift" "</Backup/Device/Path>/timeshift_<Distro2>"
echo $my_password | sudo -S mv "</Backup/Device/Path>/timeshift_<Distro1>" "</Backup/Device/Path>/timeshift"
elif [[ "$distro" == "<Distro2>" ]]; then
echo $my_password | sudo -S mv "</Backup/Device/Path>/timeshift" "</Backup/Device/Path>/timeshift_<Distro1>"
echo $my_password | sudo -S mv "</Backup/Device/Path>/timeshift_<Distro2>" "</Backup/Device/Path>/timeshift"
fi
fi
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I use dual boot of Fedora and Ubuntu. And I have a separate disk that I want to store timeshift backup of both these operating system. Unfortunately timeshift does not let us define the directory name in the backup device!
Describe the solution you'd like Instead of the folder
timeshift
, I would like it to be renamed astimeshift_Ubuntu
andtimeshift_Fedora
.How can I do it?