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I learned about timeshift in the Linux Mint blog, and then read from It's FOSS that the utility not only backs up data, but can restore the OS with all its settings and customizations. I installed timeshift following the instructions from the latter website. Upon starting it, it asked me for the password, which I gave. Then it started showing some customizations. I choose rsync, but then I decided that I will do it later, so I exited the software at that point of time.
Now, I found that there is a new directory:
It's size, returned by
I reopened timeshift and opened its logs. In the first log file, I found this:
Note that I have not created any snapshot yet.
Given the above data, is it okay if I delete this folder using
Edit:
I believe this folder is not just a "simple" folder. I have removed timeshift for the time being using
Now, I found that there is a new directory:
/run/timeshift/backup
that is almost a copy of the root directory, including my home directory:It's size, returned by
sudo du -sh
, is 320 GB. Too much.I reopened timeshift and opened its logs. In the first log file, I found this:
Code:
[22:24:51] Snapshot device: '/dev/sda2'
[22:24:51] Snapshot location: /run/timeshift/backup
Given the above data, is it okay if I delete this folder using
sudo rm -rf /run/timeshift/backup
?Edit:
I believe this folder is not just a "simple" folder. I have removed timeshift for the time being using
sudo apt remove --purge --autoremove timeshift
. I created a sample text file in my home directory, and that file "magically" appeared in /run/timeshift/backup
. When I deleted the file from the latter directory, it got deleted from my home directory too! Therefore, deleting this directory is not safe. Also, a few days back, I remember seeing in the System monitor that my hard disk had around 590 GB space left. Currently, it is 589 GB. It means that /run/timeshift/backup
is actually not taking up any space. It is somewhat like a shortcut that we have in Windows.
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