How to Create System Restore Points on Ubuntu/Linux Mint Using TimeShift:
Sometimes installing a program or driver can make Windows run slowly or unpredictably. System Restore can return your PC's system files and programs to a time when everything was working fine, potentially preventing hours of troubleshooting headaches. It won't affect your documents, pictures, or other data.
A restore point is a representation of a stored state of your computer's system files. You can use a restore point to restore your computer's system files to an earlier point in time. Restore points are automatically created by System Restore weekly and when System Restore detects the beginning of a change to your computer, such as when you install a program or a driver
TimeShift is a system restore utility designed for Linux (Debian/Ubuntu). It offers functionality similar to the System Restore feature available in MS Windows and The Time Machine Tool which is for Mac OS. It is similar to applications like BackInTime, rsnapshot and TimeVault but with different aim. TimeShift takes snapshots of the system as user schedule, these snapshots can be restored later to undo all those changes that were made in the system after the snapshot was taken.
How to install Timeshift :
Open a terminal and copy the following commands :
How to use Timeshift :
1)- Open Timeshift from dash menu.
2)- Chose Backup and select your backup device ( the partition that you want to make a backup for
it ) :
3)- Hit backup again to start building the restore point.
4)- If you want to restore your data from the backup file , just open Timeshift and chose restore then chose the restore point that you created and hit "restore"
to start restoring :
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That's all enjoy ;)
