@GottaLaff @timo21
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on too early for me. I don’t start watching til later...
All of the #MSNBC shows are available as AUDIO, we can listen anytime we want, by using a #podcastapp or a #podcastservice
I use the #FOSS Android app, #AntennaPod but you know, there is that #learningcurve 
with the settings and the adding the shows to it.
SEE my "subscription" screen
Listening with bluetooth earbuds when shopping, walking, driving, #timeshift is the way
@rasterweb Well the problem is there is nothing in #Linux exactly like Apple's Time Machine. In particular, nothing includes the "Migration Assistant" functionality that is based on having a current Time Machine backup. In terms of GUI, the closest thing I ever came across was a program called #Cronopete, but I never actually used it.
Many people, myself included, use two programs. I use #Timeshift to back up the system and the root directory (the latter because it changes very infrequently) and I set it to make a backup once or twice a week. Then, to back up my user directory, I use #BackInTime and have it set to make a backup every four hours. Of course these are incremental backups, in both cases my understanding is that (much like Time Machine) only data that has been added or changed since the previous backup is actually saved to the backup drive.
Timeshift has one glaring fault in that you can tell it how often to backup, but not WHEN to do the backups. There is a workaround (https://twosortoftechguys.wordpress.com/2024/07/24/how-to-force-timeshift-to-schedule-backups-at-a-specific-time-of-day/) but why they don't give you this ability in the Timeshift GUI is beyond me.
I have also never understood why it is recommended to run both programs to back up different parts of the system, or why no one has developed one program that does it all. I guess technically you can set Timeshift to back up everything but nobody seems to recommend that, and I don't really understand why. I THINK both Timeshift and BackInTime use rsync "under the hood". And there are several other #backup programs, those are just the two I have seen recommended most often for Linux users.
About the big .vdi file I thought I'd lost after mintBackup somehow corrupted it: I'd forgotten that I configured TimeShift to back up my home directory. I was able to recover my lost VM this morning!
I know it's not recommended to use TimeShift for backing up /home, but it worked and saved me a lot of time. #TimeShift
If you use #BTRFS and #Timeshift and you've made a restore but can't delete the pre-restore snapshot, you have to manually delete some subvolumes #systemd makes by using the btrfs command line according to this #Arch forum thread. You'll need to open Timeshift first so it mounts the subvolumes in /run though, or else the commands won't work.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=266965
#ArchLinux #Linux #LinuxMint (Timeshift is really important there)
Seriously, thank god for #timeshift !
