Which folders and files do I need to exclude from TimeShift?
Also is there a way to also exclude programs installed as .deb ?
I doing this to reduce Backup size as I have limited storage.
100GB - Windows 11
400GB - Storage
400GB - Mint
100GB - TimeShift
Btrfs is well supported.
Btrfs uses snapshots and subvolumes. It is not a traditional partition and can restore to itself.
I think Timeshift is primarily a snapshotting tool for a quick rollback if something breaks. I would not consider it a full backup tool, there are tools that are much more robust and configurable for keeping files safe and elsewhere.
But AFAIK, Only Pika Backup has intuitive GUI. And It’s auto backup doen’t work on Mint 21.3 cause of some old packge. So I sticked to TimeShift.
Vorta, Deja Dup (duplicity), duplicati are some others.
All of utilities you suggested are awesome.
Which one do you suggest? And why?
I would recommend using Timeshift. BTRFS mode can create local snapshots and rsync mode can be used to backup to external media. Timeshift can exclude directories based on user preferences.
So BTRFS can’t create external backups?
Btrfs can send a snapshot to another machine, but there is no pretty gui for it.
Most file systems cannot do this.
How about just another partition on the same disk though?