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Hi everyone, hope the holidays has treated you well! I have this issue, where I'm putting my Timeshift backups on an external USB drive.

Apr 16, 2020 · I am running Mint 19.3, I need to restore my broken system. I booted up with a live usb and installed timeshift. When I pick a snapshot and click "restore" I get, "Error, Failed to mount devices". I have boot drive and home mounted. I tried several snapshots.

Apr 01, 2020 · Same Issue here. After mapping the encrypted hard drive, and mounting it, timeshift seems to mount the filesystem to a second mounting point: (in my case: /run/timeshift/backup). Even after closing timeshift the filesystem seems mounted to /run/timeshift/backup and the manually assigned mounting point.

Oct 05, 2020 · Issue refers to Timeshift v20.03 in Linux Mint 20 Cinnamon 64bit. Timeshift mounts the target device for the snapshots at the mounting point /run/timeshift/backup. Unfortunately, the target device is not unmounted after having finished the snapshot or after the GUI is closed. The mounting stays active till shutdown.

19.09.2021 · Registered: 2021-09-15. Posts: 1. Timeshift restore failing to mount device. I screwed up my system somewhere in either display manager or xorg and want to roll back to a few days ago when it was still working fine. I've been using timeshift to backup my system on a regular basis but this is the first time I've had to restore from a backup.

When I pick a snapshot and click "restore" I get, "Error, Failed to mount devices". I have boot drive and home mounted. I tried several snapshots. Share.

Hello how can i fix this issue? I try to restore in timeshit including home but after restart in failed and got that error.

Sep 11, 2016 · 4joeyirosh1 wrote:Hi!I backed up my Debian 11 64 bit Linux using timeshift. I had an OS problem thus I needed to restore from backup.I booted the machine from Debian recovery mode ( init runlevel 1) and ran the command timeshift --restore accepting defaults.Unfortunately the restore failed with errors below.I confirmed that /run/timeshift/restore/ directory was there at the time of restore

05.10.2020 · Timeshift should check for mounted partitions and reuse those (keeping them mounted) or it should support "plain target directories" (like /backups/) so that no mount/unmount is nessesary at all. OR in case timeshift is supposed to have its own exclusive (unmounted) partition to backup to, it should be mentioned in the system requirements, since this is …

16.04.2020 · I am running Mint 19.3, I need to restore my broken system. I booted up with a live usb and installed timeshift. When I pick a snapshot and click "restore" I get, "Error, Failed to mount devices". I have boot drive and home mounted. I tried several snapshots.

16.06.2021 · Unable to restore using timeshift Failed to mount device. Post by 4joeyirosh1 » 2021-06-14 06:45. Hi!I backed up my Debian 11 64 bit Linux using timeshift. I had an OS problem thus I needed to restore from backup.I booted the machine from …

Backups seem to be intact. New to Linux, so just installed and have to go back because of a mistake in configuring OS. During RESTORE I saw that if I click restore and then get to the generated list, if I CANCEL, (because I saw some thin...

... [08:11:36] Mounted device '/dev/sda1' at mount point '/mnt/timeshift' [08:11:36] App config loaded: '/etc/timeshift.json' [08:11:56] ...

01.04.2020 · However when timeshift starts up, it mounts it again in a separate place. It does not seem like this would be desired behavior and creates oddities when I want to unplug the drive where I can't rely on my file manager to do the right thing, so I have to manually umount the drive as root and then cryptsetup close manually as well.

Jan 23, 2018 · I did some snapshots by Timeshift to external HDD. And i wanted to move all configuration to computer B (to make a clone). The computer B has other hardware but i used same BIOS configuration: UEFI boot, full enryption, and there other HDD disk I used Timeshift from Linux Mint 18.3 (v17.11) I tried two variants and i got same results...

Sep 15, 2021 · Registered: 2021-09-15. Posts: 1. Timeshift restore failing to mount device. I screwed up my system somewhere in either display manager or xorg and want to roll back to a few days ago when it was still working fine. I've been using timeshift to backup my system on a regular basis but this is the first time I've had to restore from a backup.

Maybe a mounted drive inside your $HOME folder, or an mounted NTFS partition with incompatible file-names. Failed to mount device ...

23.01.2018 · I used Timeshift from Linux Mint 18.3 (v17.11) I tried two variants and i got same results... 1) First variant was to restore into computer B from Timeshift's backup (from A, an external HDD) by Live CD. I installed new OS there (same Mint 18.3), before i made same partitions (full encrypt + UEFI). I checked that OS is loaded.

Continue with restore? (y/n): y Mounted '/dev/nvme0n1p5' at '/run/timeshift/restore/' E: Failed to mount device '/dev/nvme0n1p5' at mount point ...

Timeshift mounts the target device for the snapshots at the mounting point ... Timeshift fails to completely remove snapshots on the first try.

Sep 12, 2021 · Open the terminal in Ubuntu and enter the following command: sudo apt install timeshift. For Ubuntu 18.04 and Linux Mint 19 series, you’ll have to add a PPA. Enter the below commands one by one: sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:teejee2008/ppa sudo apt update sudo apt install timeshift. 2.

I'm trying to get timeshift to work on a raspberry pi. Working from a fresh raspian lite sd card, I apt isntall timeshift and udisks2 then I run the following and get this output: sudo timeshift --create --comments "init" --debug D: Main...

I have a dual boot Windows 10 and Debian Linux machine and my partitions and filesystems are as below from gparted screenshot.I hope any ...

Describe the bug Timeshift 'lost' my snapshots by looking in the wrong location. Backups should be stored at LVM /dev/mapper/mint--vg-data ...

I have all of my backups including Timeshift on a separate partition, so the OS is never effected. Timeshift might fail, but it won't because I ...