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CrackedVM

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Registered: 2021-03-14

Posts: 4

TimeShift btrfs issue

I recently switched from Windows 10 and i wanted to find a backup tool, i found TimeShift... i installed TimeShift in the setup proccess i clicked btrfs type but i go to select a drive but when i select my drive, it says Select system disk BTRFS with subvolume with main system file format (root) (@)... im not sure what to do... i use BTRFS file format for my drive so it's not wrong file format

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: TimeShift btrfs issue

You have to set up your drive with the correct subvolumes during Arch installation if you want to use timeshift on it...

In BTRFS mode, snapshots are taken using the in-built features of the BTRFS filesystem. BTRFS snapshots are supported only on BTRFS systems having an Ubuntu-type subvolume layout (with @ and @home subvolumes).

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