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

  • aleph@lemm.ee
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    11 months 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.ee
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      11 months 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