Timeshift & Similar Solutions - Safeguard & Recover Your Linux

[Sherri is a Cat]

Better is to start taking snapshots to the USB drive and then come back and delete the snapshots on your hard drive.

The USB drive needs to be formatted to EXT4 and that can be done in a number of ways:

• Using GNOME Disks (already installed)
• Using the GNOME Partition Editor aka GParted (is on your Live Mint USB, but you can also install it onto your hard drive)
• From Terminal

Let me know when is a good time to coach you on the options.

I think right now it would be better to wait. If I'm reading it correctly, I still have 904 GB available. I found that info in System Monitor. I'm not keeping anything on this PC yet anyway. I don't want to use the USB yet. If something happens, it's the only thing I can use to get Linux back. I might have to get all the updates again, but I'd rather do that than have nothing.

 

[wizardfromoz]

Regrets on delay in getting here.

I think the whole thing would be Home/OEM/file system/Timeshift/snapshots

No, it is actually as I suspected

/timeshift

and under that is

/timeshift/snapshots

Back in a sec

 

[wizardfromoz]

If not tonight then when next online, perhaps you could give us a figure from the following command.

What will happen is that a whole lot of output will run on the screen and it may take a minute of two to complete.

When it finishes and you are left at the prompt, the line above that will have a figure at the left, it may be for example

34G

If you can give me that, cool. Command is

du -ah /timeshift/snapshots/

And you could also give us, this one in code tags, please, the output of

ls /timeshift/snapshots/

That's l for larry (ls means list)

Ta

Wizard

 

[Sherri is a Cat]

If not tonight then when next online, perhaps you could give us a figure from the following command.

What will happen is that a whole lot of output will run on the screen and it may take a minute of two to complete.

When it finishes and you are left at the prompt, the line above that will have a figure at the left, it may be for example

34G

If you can give me that, cool. Command is

du -ah /timeshift/snapshots/

And you could also give us, this one in code tags, please, the output of

ls /timeshift/snapshots/

That's l for larry (ls means list)

Ta

Wizard

Wow! This is taking a long time! I'm going to get something eat! I'll be back.

 

[Sherri is a Cat]

2.2M    /timeshift/snapshots/2024-02-03_01-00-01/localhost/var/backups/dpkg.status.0
4.0K    /timeshift/snapshots/2024-02-03_01-00-01/localhost/var/backups/dpkg.statoverride.4.gz
4.0K    /timeshift/snapshots/2024-02-03_01-00-01/localhost/var/backups/dpkg.arch.4.gz
512K    /timeshift/snapshots/2024-02-03_01-00-01/localhost/var/backups/dpkg.status.1.gz
512K    /timeshift/snapshots/2024-02-03_01-00-01/localhost/var/backups/dpkg.status.4.gz
4.0K    /timeshift/snapshots/2024-02-03_01-00-01/localhost/var/backups/dpkg.diversions.4.gz
4.2M    /timeshift/snapshots/2024-02-03_01-00-01/localhost/var/backups
163M    /timeshift/snapshots/2024-02-03_01-00-01/localhost/var
4.0K    /timeshift/snapshots/2024-02-03_01-00-01/localhost/dev
4.0K    /timeshift/snapshots/2024-02-03_01-00-01/localhost/home/oem
8.0K    /timeshift/snapshots/2024-02-03_01-00-01/localhost/home
4.0K    /timeshift/snapshots/2024-02-03_01-00-01/localhost/sys
286M    /timeshift/snapshots/2024-02-03_01-00-01/localhost
61M    /timeshift/snapshots/2024-02-03_01-00-01/rsync-log
4.0K    /timeshift/snapshots/2024-02-03_01-00-01/info.json
346M    /timeshift/snapshots/2024-02-03_01-00-01
15G    /timeshift/snapshots/
oem@oem-Lenovo-G50-70:~$

 

[Sherri is a Cat]

I'm having trouble copying the entire thing. I thought I had it, but the code I pasted was incomplete. Edit, copy... nothing is selected, nothing white.

High light part, select all copy, nothing

 

[Sherri is a Cat]

The last time I posted 'code', you could scroll through the post to look at all of it. This is much, much longer. I can't scroll though any of it.

 

[Sherri is a Cat]

I'm going to wait. Nothing I'm trying is working.

 

[wizardfromoz]

That's OK, with the du -ah the figure of 15G is what I was looking for

15G /timeshift/snapshots/

and with the other ...oops my bad and my regrets - wrong command

Try this and press Tab when you have typed it, and give me the output it shows

cd /timeshift/snapshots/

 

[Sherri is a Cat]

Does this have anything to do with it? I entered the command incorrectly the first time.

The end looks like this

 

[Sherri is a Cat]

BTW...
I was trying to guess how to get all of that! I got something and then I was asked for my password. Didn't work.
My cat is laying on my mouse pad again!

 

[Sherri is a Cat]

That's OK, with the du -ah the figure of 15G is what I was looking for



and with the other ...oops my bad and my regrets - wrong command

Try this and press Tab when you have typed it, and give me the output it shows

cd /timeshift/snapshots/

Just saw this. Will do now.

 

[Sherri is a Cat]

 

[wizardfromoz]

I did not say to press Enter.

Mine, from my least populated Timeshift snapshot storage location, looks as follows:

chris@VirginiaCinn-WD:~$ cd /media/chris/TS-SSD2-dev-sdb/timeshift/snapshots/2024-01-
2024-01-09_10-51-57/ 2024-01-12_10-49-55/ 2024-01-27_08-15-18/
2024-01-09_11-09-57/ 2024-01-12_15-13-02/ 2024-01-27_08-32-39/
2024-01-11_10-18-06/ 2024-01-13_12-18-25/ 2024-01-27_08-55-33/

Wiz

 

[Sherri is a Cat]

I think there was a second command you asked for. Should I wait on that one?

 

[wizardfromoz]

Press Tab again at that point

 

[Sherri is a Cat]

Can you give me the command again, all at once? I think you said you typed something wrong earlier, I'm not sure what to put in the command line.

 

[wizardfromoz]

Exactly what you put at #533, but when it reaches the 2024-01 bit, press Tab again to get something like I posted at #534

 

[wizardfromoz]

So

cd /timeshift/snapshots/

#then Tab, shows 2024-01 , press Tab again and a list will be shown, copy that list

 

[wizardfromoz]

...and let me know any time you want to call it quits