Hello, I am an administrator at linux dot org . I am a user of Manjaro for nearly 10 years, and a user of Timeshift GUI/RSYNC for over 10 and a half years.
I have reported this issue to Linux Mint’s github presence three weeks ago here but as yet no-one has been appointed to it.
I cannot insert links yet, here, but you can find it with a search of
github linuxmint timeshift 394
If, after having read the content of my report there, you wish to test the veracity of what I have found, with Manjaro, you would need to do one of the following:
Install an old Manjaro, eg manjaro-xfce-21.2.0-211220-linux515.iso , which has the appropriate versions of Timeshift and glib2 or
Use a current version of Manjaro and downgrade the Timeshift and glib2 versions, if that can be done
Hoping to gain some cooperation is solving this issue. Cheers.
I do not know what the number at the end of that string means, but I have entered it into and it yields a whole list of issues, which I’m sure would not be dissimilar to most other software projects.
I’ve searched for that number as if it was the number of a specific bug report. Is that what you were alluding to? If not, could you be more specific about the issue(s) in question?
You can enter a URL by formatting it as code, like so…
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Given that I’m not sure which issues concretely you are referring to, all I can add is that timeshift is a package we inherit verbatim — unmodified, in binary form — from Arch upstream.
I too use timeshift with rsync, but I cannot say that I’m currently having any issues with it — I’m on Manjaro Stable, the Plasma edition, with Wayland as the display server.
The report to Mint’s github-timeshift presence is as Hanzel found.
I have attempted contact today with Tony George to see if he is interested in this, we’ll see if it bears fruit.
I will be contacting Jerry Bezencon at Linux Lite, and also give Mageia a heads up, as I helped them with letting them know about the glib2 issue 2.5 years ago, as their Beta of Mageia 9 was going to have the wrong Timeshift version in it. They changed it and I tested it successfully for them. Eddie @Oldhabbits is also a member at linux dot org.
I think i understand your posted issue and expected behavior…
but as far as i know timeshift backups the root and restores it in this case to another drive. In my case (bios/mbr) the mbr of the first drive will point to the formerly defined grub on the defined drive. (theres no big difference with efi i guess?)
As far as I know, grub pretty much statically points to the images of the drives with the corresponding UUIDs that were determined at the time grub-mkconfig was run.
So theres no change in the MBR/grub configuration. I would not expect any menu entries to appear dynamically in grub with a standard grub config.
and it yields a whole list of issues, which I’m sure would not be dissimilar to most other software projects.
