How To Install timeshift on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install timeshift
on CentOS 7.
What is timeshift
Timeshift for Linux is an application that provides functionality similar to the System Restore feature in Windows and the Time Machine tool in Mac OS. Timeshift protects your system by taking incremental snapshots of the file system at regular intervals. These snapshots can be restored at a later date to undo all changes to the system. In RSYNC mode, 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. In BTRFS mode, snapshots are taken using the in-built features of the BTRFS filesystem. BTRFS snapshots are supported only on BTRFS systems having an Ubuntu-type subvolume layout (with @ and @home subvolumes).
We can use yum
or dnf
to install timeshift
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install timeshift.
Install timeshift on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install timeshift
using yum
by running the following command:
Install timeshift on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install timeshift
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall timeshift on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the timeshift
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install timeshift
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.