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

  • funkajunk@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    Just go BTRFS and get it over with. Snapshots are a game changer and I’m never going back.

    • donut4ever@lemm.eeOP
      3·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • aleph@lemm.eeEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        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?

        • donut4ever@lemm.eeOP
          2·
          1 year ago

          I believe so. I have read so much shit and yes nvme and btrfs don’t like each other. Some people say because of timeshift, some say because of swap file. I just removed btrfs and used ext4 and end it all. Now no issues

  • Minty95@lemm.ee
    3·
    1 year ago

    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

    • donut4ever@lemm.eeOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      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

  • AProfessional@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    I can just say I use borg (what Pika and Vorta apps use) and it works well for me. I only backup user files though.