Essential System Tools: Timeshift - Reliable system restore tool for Linux | Linux Today

Essential System Tools: Timeshift – Reliable system restore tool for Linux

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Dec 11, 2018

Timeshift is a GTK3-based, open source, system restore utility which takes incremental snapshots of the system using rsync and hard-links. These snapshots can be restored at a later date to undo all changes that were made to the system after the snapshot was taken. Snapshots can be taken manually or at regular intervals using scheduled jobs.

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