Timeshift Schedule

[TechnoJunky]

I have an older computer and when Timeshift runs, it is pretty useless until it finishes. I see how to change it from daily to weekly, etc, but doesn't allow you to change the time of day that it runs. It always wants to run at about 6 AM, which is a time that I am always on my computer. I'd much prefer it to run in the middle of the night instead. Can anyone tell me how to change that?

[Cosmo.]

To my knowledge this is not doable at now. At least I do not see a way, how to accomplish that.

[Terryphi]

Just do manual backups not scheduled ones. Then you can do them at a time and frequency that suits you.

[BG405]

You could try initially setting up the schedule just after your usual bedtime (means staying up late once) as it'll probably run at that time subsequently.

[austin.texas]

Just do manual backups not scheduled ones. Then you can do them at a time and frequency that suits you.

Right. You can run the backup at any time later easily with the sleep command.
For example, if I want to download a Mint .iso 3 hours after I go to bed, the command would be:

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sleep 3h ; wget -c http://mirrors.kernel.org/linuxmint/stable/18.3/linuxmint-18.3-cinnamon-64bit.iso

You could set up a chron job to run your Timeshift command.

[Pat D]

Me, too.
I've just discovered that, while I had Timeshift scheduled for weekly, it was doing a backup every 30 - 60 minutes.
Nothing I can find affects this. I want a backup program I can schedule, because I tend to forget.
I tried so many now, I'm verging on giving up and just rebuilding periodically. Seriously, I'm sure it's this HP box, but no backup I've yet tried works consistently.

Any ideas out there?

[Cosmo.]

I had Timeshift scheduled for weekly, it was doing a backup every 30 - 60 minutes.

Really? I doubt that. TS looks at every full hour, if a new snapshot is needed (= the interval since the last snapshot has exceeded the value in the setting), but that's all. There should not be more than 1 snapshot per calendar week. (Exception is schedule for boot time.)

[Pat D]

Doubt it all you want.
The backups were every hour, with half-hour ones thrown in. The schedule setting didn't affect it.
No good on this box. Uninstalled.

[Cosmo.]

Uninstalled.

This removes the possibility to provide a screenshot of the snapshot list and the settings.

[Pat D]

Thanks for all, though.
A few days ago I started messing with encryption and email; I don't know how, but the box started doing all kinds of weird things, not just with Timeshift. I have another post here about the mysterious appearance of an unknown device in media (both nemo and terminal) that does not actually exist and never did. And root can't get rid of it.
Much weirdness. The encryption stuff is probably coincidental, but the box has gone whacko.
So going to blow it away and start from scratch.