How to force Timeshift to schedule backups at a specific time of day

… this article deals with one particular and sometimes annoying quirk of Timeshift – it does not allow you to schedule backups at a particular time of day if you use its GUI to schedule backups (this assumes you are not doing hourly backups; in that case you probably want a backup to be made every hour no matter what). Maybe you are using Linux to run a home theater PC – in that case you probably don’t want Timeshift deciding to do a backup during prime time. Or in an office setting, you might not want Timeshift running during your busiest time of day. But Timeshift gives you no way to control that (unless you resort to running it from the Linux command line, and that may have certain other disadvantages). Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to force Timeshift to do its backups in the middle of the night, or at some other preferred time of day?

Well it turns out it is possible. …

Source: How to force Timeshift to schedule backups at a specific time of day – Two “Sort Of” Tech Guys

How to Take Linux System Snapshots with Timeshift

Linux shows you no mercy when you don’t have a backup. There are several backup utilities out there, including System Restore for Windows and Time Machine for Mac OS. Timeshift is an open-source software which takes incremental snapshots of your Linux file system at regular intervals, which you can restore later if you accidentally render your system unusable.

Source: How to Take Linux System Snapshots with Timeshift (LinOxide)

Easy Linux backup software with Time Machine like functionality | Nuxified.org

It’s easy to be impressed by Apple’s Time Machine backup feature. It works in the background, is seamlessly integrated, and when you need to get to restore something whoa.. you’re all of a sudden in space, travelling back in time, bringing something back to the present.

There are two key things to this system. First it’s an incremental backup system which allows you to restore from multiple past versions of files that are backed up (the “time travelling”). Second, it’s very easy to use and provides a very impressive experience.

So do we have anything like that in the Linux world? Well, for the most part we do, and here’s what we’ve got.

Source: Easy Linux backup software with Time Machine like functionality | Nuxified.org
Related link: Cronopete – An Apple’s Time Machine Clone For Linux – OSTechNix

NOTE: The link to Rastersoft’s Cronopete seems to have gone missing from the article. Here it is.