I have 2 Linux pcs, wondering if I can have my time shifts backed up to 1 hard drive or if I need to have seperate drives for each PC.

EDIT: I was able to make a partition and use 1 hard drive to back up 2 different pcs. Thanks!

  • Dr Jekell@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    A partition for each one the drive should work alright, but it may turn to custard if they both try to access the drive at the same time.

  • Pacmanlives@lemmy.world
    3·
    4 months ago

    Just read up on Timeshift and that should be do able. I would just point them to diff folder names the host name. If your doing BTRFS snapshots it’s a little harder but still do able. You can look at the native send-receive support in BTRFS. I have never used it myself but it worked really will with ZFS

  • themusicman@lemmy.world
    2·
    4 months ago

    Not sure whether timeshift supports multiple systems per partition, but I’d be very surprised if you couldn’t create separate partitions for each PC