TimeShift
System restore tool for Linux. Creates filesystem snapshots using rsync+hardlinks, or BTRFS snapshots. Supports scheduled snapshots, multiple backup levels, and exclude filters. Snapshots can be restored while system is running or from Live CD/USB. (by teejee2008)
Rsnapshot
a tool for backing up your data using rsync (if you want to get help, use https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rsnapshot-discuss) (by rsnapshot)
| TimeShift | Rsnapshot | |
|---|---|---|
| 142 | 73 | |
| 4,441 | 3,216 | |
| - | 0.9% | |
| 4.7 | 4.7 | |
| almost 2 years ago | about 1 month ago | |
| Vala | Perl | |
| GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
TimeShift
Posts with mentions or reviews of TimeShift.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-27.
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Need a way to use BTRFS snapshots for system backups? Use BTRFS assistant, not Timeshift!
The previous developer of timeshift—Tony George (GitHub) — has been the developer since 2017 (based on GitHub version history), and has recently handed off development to the Linux Mint team.
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How do you do backups of your drives?
I use both timeshift & duplicity
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Timeshift - User Home Directories, Exclude All Files or Include All Files?
Don't believe me or u/acejavelin69 - read what the developer has to say about user data and why it is disabled by default. https://github.com/teejee2008/timeshift
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Mysterious Timeshift update
Version v22.06.6 Latest
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set up timeshift on fedora 37
The original dev used ubuntu and only wanted to support the default ubuntu layout: https://github.com/teejee2008/timeshift/issues/821
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System backup software question.
What system backup software can you recommend? In the past on Ubuntu I tested Timeshift, and it looks really cool. But the "main problem" is thing, that some options not work in Fedora: https://github.com/teejee2008/timeshift, specifically BTRFS. What does it mean, this is a problem?
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Backup solution before system upgrade to Fedora 37
- [Timeshift](https://github.com/teejee2008/timeshift) or [Deja Dup](https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/DejaDup) and back-up everything.
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How to include /root and /home/user in timeshift snapshots
What I tried is to add "exclude" : [ "+ /home/user1/**", "+ /root/**", "+ /home/user2/**", ], to /etc/timeshift.json as per this post but the files within those folders still aren't included in the backup.
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Ubuntu 22.10 Timeshift
Releases · teejee2008/timeshift Was fixed. Get PPA from that repo to have the latest release.
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Best configuration for bare hypervisor distro FOR DESKTOP VMs
Are you sure you need a full on virtual machine, rather than a system snapshotting tool like Snapper or Timeshift?
Rsnapshot
Posts with mentions or reviews of Rsnapshot.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-07-22.
- Timeshift: System Restore Tool for Linux
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Escaping Surveillance Capitalism, at Scale
Two things I want to try this month are:
https://mastodon.social/@chromakode/110936177254839251
https://rsnapshot.org/
- Backup software that continuously monitors changes but runs only once a month
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Not openSUSE specific but what's the best backup utility?
I'm using rsnapshot. It's based on rsync. It's fully automated and I make daily and monthly backups backup to my NAS. The biggest benefit of rsnapshot is that it uses hardlinks. So only changed files are backed up. It doesn't have a GUI though, you have to set a configuration file.
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Criticize my backup strategy
For backups, I'm using rsnapshot.
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Newbie - How to (image) Backup a rasberry PI
It's been a while but I think rsnapshot is what you're looking for.
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Python Port of 600 Line Bash Script: rsync-time-machine.py for Rsync Backups
The description sounds like it does largely the same job as rsnapshot (https://rsnapshot.org/). What does yours do differently from rsnapshot?
- Redundancy and bit-rot protection on a single drive
- The fastest rm command and one of the fastest cp commands
- Do you perform offline backups for your NAS?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing TimeShift and Rsnapshot you can also consider the following projects:
Back In Time - Back In Time - An easy-to-use backup tool for GNU Linux using rsync in the back
BorgBackup - Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.
snapper - Manage filesystem snapshots and allow undo of system modifications
restic - Fast, secure, efficient backup program
rclone - "rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, Azure Files, Yandex Files
Duplicati - Store securely encrypted backups in the cloud!
Rdiff-backup - Reverse differential backup tool, over a network or locally.
Duplicity - Unnoficial fork of Duplicity - Bandwidth Efficient Encrypted Backup