Setting up Time Shift and Back in Time on External Device (SOLVED)

[FUBAR]

I keep a WD 2TB HDD (external) connected to USB on rear of motherboard. While I was setting up BackinTime, I looked in the computer/mnt and saw my other devices, but not the WD device.. Where would it be found?

[vanadium]

External devices that are automatically mounted when you plug them in should be represented by an icon in the left pane of the file manager, and file dialogs. They are mounted under /media/<your_login>/<specific_name>.

[FUBAR]

Yea......just found that.....now how do I choose what to save??

[Cosmo.]

This depends from what you want to save.

The settings of BackInTime are organized in profiles. 2 settings are mandatory: On the first tab the place, where you want to save.
On the second tab you tell BiT what you want to save, e.g.your complete home, that could be e.g. /home/fubar

[AndyMH]

What to save - just use the defaults, which is all of home.

Backintime will save its snapshots on a win filesystem like ntfs, but strongly recommend you use an ext4 partition as the destination. Add a label to the partition, e.g. mybackup, then mint will automount it at /media/you/mybackup. Without a label it will use the UUID which is not particularly user friendly.

In backintime, the destination should be set as /media/you/mybackup. Backintime will automatically create the folders needed and save your snapshots in

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/media/you/mybackup/backintime/hostname/you/1

the 1 refers to the profile number (you can have multiple profiles with backintime - I have two, one for the contents of home and the other for my VMs).

If you create an ext4 partition with gparted it will be owned by root and backintime will fail. With it mounted, change ownership to you with

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sudo chown $USER:$USER /media/you/mybackup

[FUBAR]

Like this??

[Cosmo.]

Your screenshot shows BiT, but the folder you show is the root folder of your system. BiT is made to backup your user data, this would be /home/fubar.

[FUBAR]

So, I excluded the Root files, and chose fubar/home only. Is this correct?

[Cosmo.]

No. Exclude home with your account also. Then you are at the default setting (regarding this option), as you can read in the second line of your screenshot.

[AndyMH]

You don't really need to change any of the default settings.

[FUBAR]

Thanks all for the replies. I think I have confused myself over which settings are which, and that's on me. Can I remove the post and start over with questions on each app individually?

[Cosmo.]

Create a new thread for each topic.

[FUBAR]

Do the moderators remove this post?