Can I use 1 hard drive and timeshift for 2 pcs?
Can I use 1 hard drive and timeshift for 2 pcs?
I have 2 Linux pcs, wondering if I can have my time shifts backed up to 1 hard drive or if I need to have seperate drives for each PC.
EDIT: I was able to make a partition and use 1 hard drive to back up 2 different pcs. Thanks!
Just read up on Timeshift and that should be do able. I would just point them to diff folder names the host name. If your doing BTRFS snapshots it’s a little harder but still do able. You can look at the native send-receive support in BTRFS. I have never used it myself but it worked really will with ZFS
6 0 ReplyOK, thank you.
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A partition for each one the drive should work alright, but it may turn to custard if they both try to access the drive at the same time.
4 0 ReplyIt won't be an issue for both PCs to access it. I'll try making another partition. Thanks!
1 0 ReplyIt's not so much both computers being able to access it.
From what I have experienced Timeshift tends to lock a drive when it is doing a backup.
If computer 1 is doing a backup and computer 2 tries to start it's backup it may fail without you noticing.
Giving each computer their own partition on the drive should alleviate the problem.
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Not sure whether timeshift supports multiple systems per partition, but I'd be very surprised if you couldn't create separate partitions for each PC
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