How to Backup and Restore your Linux System with Timeshift | Linux Today

How to Backup and Restore your Linux System with Timeshift

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Jun 22, 2022

Timeshift is a system backup and restores tool designed to restore your system into a usable state after something goes wrong. Timeshift is designed to only backup system files and settings. In this tutorial we’ll learn how to use Timeshift to restore our system to a previous state.

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