As you can tell, I'm a big fan of this, because it has saved my rear end on several occasions. Sometimes my fingers are too darned fat!
Posted on 08/26/2020 6:11:46 AM PDT by ShadowAce
As you can tell, I'm a big fan of this, because it has saved my rear end on several occasions. Sometimes my fingers are too darned fat!
This comes with two, A regular backup program, and also Time shift. Time shift depending on the settings are for daily, weekly, monthly, or on demand. It does a full image that can be “restored back to” like the windows restore program does.
But windows only makes a restoration point when something is installed. Timeshift can be dialed in how often as auto and/or when you make any installations. Or on demand when you think you better do it before major changes. It really works well and can be tuned with detail.
Yep, Timshift is almost exactly the same thing. One or the other is probably rebranded off the other. I am finding out there is a lot of that in the Linux world... :)
As for the boot speed, I'm not really concerned about that. It could take half an hour to boot, and I wouldn't care since that only happens 3 times in an average year (if that).
dayglored--no worries. I knew it wasn't aimed at me. :)
I actually just researched creating unit files on the web. Some troubleshooting, and notes. :) As far as boot speed goes, It's somewhat of a concern for us as we patch/reboot monthly due to company policy. Also, we have network monitor that e-mails us when a server is not reachable via ping/ssh. Hence, boot speed during this process is good so we don't get inundated with e-mails.
Also, I have implemented a HPC (small one of only about 64 nodes) that will be heavily used in production. The faster I can get the nodes rebooted (when required) the better. It keeps users off of our backs as well. :)
“Document Viewer” on Mint is probably the same as on Fedora—It’s actually a program called evince.
Already installed Grsync. Will try it sometime. Thanks
Probably is, I am seeing that a lot. It’s FOSS, and in the FOSS world they make a couple minor changes and call it something different.
Same engine and drive train, just a different GUI paint job... lol
No doubt. I looked at the timeshift GUI and stuff, and think I actually like it better. However, I've got literally years invested in backintime, so I doubt I'll be switching!
I understand and don’t blame you, the GUI is pretty clean though, it looks like just icons and window size difference though.
Like I told Shadowace earlier, a lot of things with Linux are the same source engine and drive train, just a different GUI paint job and badging... lol
I really want to like Linux, but it seems that no matter what distro I use, it freezes after using it for a couple of hours. Kind of reminds me of the WinXP days. Tried Manjaro KDE, Mint Cinnamon, Pop OS downloaded KDE, Elementary OS, etc.
I have a Canon Pro 100 and Espson WF 7610 and no distro runs them correctly. So, I keep going back to Windows 10 Pro where I have an OS freeze maybe once a year.
Since I'm running Linux on server-class hardware at work, with uptimes measured in years, I know the OS is stable.
On the other hand, on my 10 year old laptop at home, I also run into the OS freeze issue. I believe that my hardware is not the best, and I will replace it shortly.
My oldest son dual boots Linux (exact same distro and version as me) and Windows and never locks up--but he runs much newer (and better) hardware than I do for his gaming.
I’m not having freezes on Windows 10. Hardware is just fine.
So, I keep going back to Windows 10 Pro where I have an OS freeze maybe once a year.
Once a year is nothing compared to once a day.
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