I cannot see these in the Timeshift application itself, and would like to have them deleted.
Each time I run a system upgrade, Timeshift tries to do an ‘auto snapshot’ and clean up old snapshots - and since it cannot find these ‘ghost’ snapshots, it goes through a long process of trying to delete and failing.
I also see them. It’s like, when you remove snapshots, some files stay. It is possible that this is an intentional behaviour - it could be, that the newer snapshots, use the files from removed ones. However, I can be wrong.
Anyway, those old snapshots take a lot of space so I just delete them manually, but leave some “newer ones”, at least few versions before the last existing snapshot. Also, after deleting, I’m doing a new snapshot, in case the deleted folders messed up existing snapshots.
I wish there would be a better documentation for this.
Hi there, I have tried to delete them manually but cannot do so. I get an error “cannot remove xyz file, read-only file system”. Not sure how to proceed.
What file format do you use on your backup source and which type of backup do you use?
I use ext4 and have rsync based backups, so I have full access to my files. Aside having full backup, I often need to reach for certain files within backup, that is why this kind of setup is optimal for me.
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