Because of a poor understanding of what the program does, and is for, I made the mistake of backing up my entire system (including all the /home and data files) with Timeshift. (I now know better and will be using a different backup strategy in the future!)
Because of some hardware changes that turned out to be more of a challenge than I anticipated, I have had to do a fresh install of Bookworm. This is actually about the nth install, the previous one was trashed when I attempted to do a Timeshift restore that appears to have messed up the boot files....
I have a lot of software that I've added over time, including some things that are not in the Debian repos, or are only present as (much) older versions, which I've had to compile from sources... I'd really like to avoid having to try to reproduce all that.
I'd like to do a SELECTIVE restore, putting back only the files or directories that have the things in them I need (i.e. probably /usr, /lib, /bin, and so on, but not the boot files, or most of what's in root....) but I can't find any descriptions of how to do this, despite considerable searching.... I've had two ideas about how to possibly do this, and am wondering if either seems possible....
1. Are there any restore programs that can work with a Timeshift snapshot, and do a more selective restore?
2. I see that when doing a restore using Timeshift, it asks you where to restore things to... I have plenty of spare disk space, if I told Timeshift to do the restore to a totally different drive (which I wouldn't need to boot), would I then be able to use other software to copy selected files from that restored drive back into my working system?
Thanks,
ex-Gooserider
Because of some hardware changes that turned out to be more of a challenge than I anticipated, I have had to do a fresh install of Bookworm. This is actually about the nth install, the previous one was trashed when I attempted to do a Timeshift restore that appears to have messed up the boot files....
I have a lot of software that I've added over time, including some things that are not in the Debian repos, or are only present as (much) older versions, which I've had to compile from sources... I'd really like to avoid having to try to reproduce all that.
I'd like to do a SELECTIVE restore, putting back only the files or directories that have the things in them I need (i.e. probably /usr, /lib, /bin, and so on, but not the boot files, or most of what's in root....) but I can't find any descriptions of how to do this, despite considerable searching.... I've had two ideas about how to possibly do this, and am wondering if either seems possible....
1. Are there any restore programs that can work with a Timeshift snapshot, and do a more selective restore?
2. I see that when doing a restore using Timeshift, it asks you where to restore things to... I have plenty of spare disk space, if I told Timeshift to do the restore to a totally different drive (which I wouldn't need to boot), would I then be able to use other software to copy selected files from that restored drive back into my working system?
Thanks,
ex-Gooserider
Statistics: Posted by ex-Gooserider — 2024-04-29 01:47