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860lacov

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Registered: 2020-05-02

Posts: 497

[SOLVED] Timeshift doesn’t create scheduled snapshots

Installed from aur

journalctl -b -u cronie
-- Logs begin at Mon 2020-05-04 16:17:55 CEST, end at Tue 2020-05-05 15:33:23 CEST. --
maj 05 15:29:49 tango systemd[1]: Started Periodic Command Scheduler.
maj 05 15:29:49 tango crond[462]: (CRON) STARTUP (1.5.5)
maj 05 15:29:49 tango crond[462]: (CRON) INFO (Syslog will be used instead of sendmail.)
maj 05 15:29:49 tango crond[462]: (CRON) INFO (RANDOM_DELAY will be scaled with factor 78% if used.)
maj 05 15:29:49 tango crond[462]: (CRON) INFO (running with inotify support)
maj 05 15:29:49 tango CROND[465]: (root) CMD (sleep 10m && timeshift --create --scripted --tags B)

ls /etc/cron.d/
0hourly  timeshift-boot  timeshift-hourly

cronie.service - Periodic Command Scheduler
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/cronie.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
     Active: active (running) since Tue 2020-05-05 15:29:49 CEST; 5min ago
   Main PID: 462 (crond)
      Tasks: 4 (limit: 4461)
     Memory: 1.8M
     CGroup: /system.slice/cronie.service
             ├─462 /usr/bin/crond -n
             ├─464 /usr/bin/CROND -n
             ├─465 /bin/bash -c sleep 10m && timeshift --create --scripted --tags B
             └─467 sleep 10m

maj 05 15:29:49 tango systemd[1]: Started Periodic Command Scheduler.
maj 05 15:29:49 tango crond[462]: (CRON) STARTUP (1.5.5)
maj 05 15:29:49 tango crond[462]: (CRON) INFO (Syslog will be used instead of sendmail.)

Manual snapshots from gui and tty work.

My drives are mounted like this:

# /dev/sda1 LABEL=arch
UUID=dea507c7-9c16-4bc7-bc1a-a0c6f2a1b805	/         	btrfs     	rw,noatime,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache,commit=120,subvol=@	0 0

# /dev/sda1 LABEL=arch
UUID=dea507c7-9c16-4bc7-bc1a-a0c6f2a1b805	/var/cache	btrfs     	rw,noatime,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache,commit=120,subvol=@cache	0 0

# /dev/sdb1 LABEL=home
UUID=15605bb0-6b86-4c9f-911b-95b83abc3551	/home     	btrfs     	rw,noatime,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache,commit=120,subvol=@home	0 0

Last edited by 860lacov (2020-05-06 09:09:48)

JimDeadlock

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From: London

Registered: 2019-03-20

Posts: 83

Re: [SOLVED] Timeshift doesn’t create scheduled snapshots

Timeshift is currently borked:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=254952

damian101

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Registered: 2019-05-19

Posts: 1

Re: [SOLVED] Timeshift doesn’t create scheduled snapshots

It works for me, but I had to enable/start cronie.service.

artemis7107

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Registered: 2022-06-04

Posts: 5

Re: [SOLVED] Timeshift doesn’t create scheduled snapshots

Just leaving this reply to say that enabling cronie solved it for me (since OP didn't make it clear). Thanks damian101!

Last edited by artemis7107 (2022-06-12 18:36:36)

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

Posts: 4,648

Re: [SOLVED] Timeshift doesn’t create scheduled snapshots

Please do not necrobump.

Closing this old solved thread.