Crikey, you jokers are going to steal the content of my Tutorial
... only kidding.
We mustn't derail
@Ptahhotep 's thread, which is primarily about 'Sylvia', but at the same time, since Linux Mint's utilisation of Timeshift, I am happy to field a few questions on same. I will still incorporate them in the full Tute, which shows Timeshift can be employed across Debian-based, RPM-based, Arch-based distros and on and on.
@atanere - quite so, Stan, a different partition or drive is appropriate, if you have the resources and space. These can be tweaked in TS once you go through the initial Wizard, and then choose "Settings - Location".
Also, TS has as its engine, rsync, so you may find a few similarities, and for any System Administrators (sysadmins) out there, administering Linux networks, they are likely already familiar with rsync for remote access. But rsync also has application for the home user, and Timeshift is a good application of just that.
@Bayou Bengal ... also good application of the tool, but important to stress for those starved for space - Timeshift is not a complete backup tool. It is more like Windows Restore in setting a recovery point with its snapshots.
You
can override its default, which is to
not include the contents of Home (folder, rather than a separate partition), as I do. BUT, it is not incremental, so each snapshot taken will consume the same space or larger. Further, personal data should still be safeguarded, because if you restore from a snapshot, and have included files which are constantly altered, the snapshot will overwrite your new data, with same-named files. So it is important to either set KEEP so long constraints and then have snapshots deleted, or control it manually (on demand) as I do.
More in the Tute.
Wiz