Write the root password and click on the ‘Authenticate’ button. Click on the TimeShift application icon.Īuthentication is required to open the TimeShift application. The TimeShift application icon will appear. To launch the TimeShift application, open the Application Menu, and write TimeShift in the search bar. Launch TimeShift ApplicationĪfter the successful installation of TimeShift, now we are ready to launch it and create backups. Write to us in the comments if you have any questions.Congratulation! The TimeShift is successfully installed. Timeshift will continue taking snapshots of our system on a weekly and monthly basis now. It includes scheduling and taking multiple backups on Fedora 34 using Timeshift utility.
In this guide, we worked with advanced settings. To uninstall Timeshift, you will need to run the following command and it will be gone forever. Timeshift will begin creating the first snapshot as shown below: Go back to the menu and click “ Create” to create the first backup of your system. You can exclude and include whatever you like. In my case, I will choose the default selection. The remaining option is to filter which directories are to be backed up. We will leave Users and Misc options as they are. You can select boot back up if you are running important applications on your system. I only prefer one weekly and one monthly backup on my Fedora 34 as it is not a production system. Now we will schedule a few backups in need. Timeshift does not limit the number of disks. You can always choose and use whatever location you want.
You might have more than one disk, or it could be an external disk for your backups. I have only one disk at the time of writing this guide as shown on the following screen. We will not change the type of snapshot and will leave the default selected which is RSYNC in our case. You will get into the Settings menu once clicked. Select the settings button in the top menu bar. You have installed Timeshift on your latest Fedora 34. When you will launch Timeshift on Fedora for the first time, it will look like something below: You can either launch it via dashboard or CLI, both work. Once installed you can find it in your dashboard as shown below: You would need the following command to install Timeshift on Fedora: sudo dnf install timeshift It is possible to install Timeshift via Gnome Software, but it is always better on Linux to install any package using CLI. I am using Fedora 34 which is the latest Fedora edition for desktop use. In this article, we will learn how to install Timeshift on the Fedora distribution. A user can choose directories and folders of their choice to backup and so on. It has the ability to create multiple backups on predefined schedules. Timeshift is a marvelous piece of software.
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