{"id":2690,"date":"2013-12-28T12:43:44","date_gmt":"2013-12-28T12:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=2690"},"modified":"2022-12-10T08:04:08","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T08:04:08","slug":"install-timeshift-1-3-ubuntu-ppa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/12\/install-timeshift-1-3-ubuntu-ppa\/","title":{"rendered":"System Restore App TimeShift 1.3 Released, Install it via PPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/system-restore-for-Linux-Timeshift.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2691\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/system-restore-for-Linux-Timeshift.jpg\" alt=\"system restore app for Ubuntu Linux\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/system-restore-for-Linux-Timeshift.jpg 240w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/system-restore-for-Linux-Timeshift-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>TimeShift<\/b> is a Linux app that provides functionality similar to the <i>System Restore<\/i> feature in Windows and the <i>Time Machine tool<\/i> in Mac OS.<\/p>\n<p>TimeShift takes incremental snapshots of the file system at regular intervals. These snapshots can be restored later to bring your system to the exact state it was in at the time when the snapshot was taken.<\/p>\n<p>Snapshots are taken using rsync and hard-links. Common files are shared between snapshots which saves disk space. Each snapshot is a full system backup that can be browsed with a file manager.<\/p>\n<p>TimeShift is designed to protect only system files and settings. User files such as documents, pictures and music are excluded. This ensures that your files remains unchanged when you restore your system to an earlier date.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/timeshift.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1892\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/timeshift.jpg\" alt=\"create system restore point\" width=\"520\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/timeshift.jpg 520w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/timeshift-300x259.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TimeShift 1.3 was released recently with Ubuntu 12.04 build error fixed. The <b>TimeShift PPA<\/b> is ready for Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04, Linux Mint and their derivatives.<\/p>\n<p>To install the tool, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run commands below one by one:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border: none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:teejee2008\/timeshift\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get update\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get install timeshift<\/pre>\n<p>For Fedora, OpenSuse, ArchLinux and other Linux Operating Systems, you may use the .run installer from TimeShift website.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teejeetech.in\/p\/timeshift.html\">TimeShift Homepage<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TimeShift is a Linux app that provides functionality similar to the System Restore feature in Windows and the Time Machine tool in Mac OS. TimeShift takes incremental snapshots of the file system at regular intervals. These snapshots can be restored later to bring your system to the exact state it was in at the time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[939,940],"class_list":["post-2690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-system-restore-for-ubuntu-linux","tag-timeshift-ppa"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}