Hi all, Just wanted to know, do these all work the same? I have ext4, so no snapshots on timeshift, but I’m using it now to back up to an external SD card. I have heard good things about Pika and dejadup, and had some mishaps with timeshift. So, my question is, do they all do the same thing? Like, if I messed up something, can I use any of these apps to restore to a previous point where the system was working? And what the best backup app in your opinion?
Edit: Basically, I’m looking for a backup app that I can use to do both, backup my whole system and restore to a working state if I borked something. Just like timeshift, but timeshift scares me, because I’ve had some issues with it where the whole system just got messed up, and I had to reinstall (all ext4 btw) Thanks in advance
Just go BTRFS and get it over with. Snapshots are a game changer and I’m never going back.
Can’t do btrfs on this laptop. Nvme is a bitch. I had an issue where the laptop wakes up to a black screen every time I open the lid.
Oh, is that what it is? I had no end of problems with my laptop display not waking from sleep and failing to boot when I was using btrfs, but I assumed it being caused by something else.
Is that an NVME specific problem?
Won’t they all furfil your requirements?
That’s why I’m asking here. I don’t know if the others do the same as timeshift where they can restore the computer to a working state
I use timeshift, on Arch and a Debian setup . It’s simple to set up, I do a automatic snapshot once a day, so if something breaks, just boot into tty and restore the previous day’s snapshot, takes about five minutes. Not sure why you say ext4 doesn’t work as it does. Haven’t tried the other programs that you talked about
