Fair enough.
>From some more research I got the impression that "raw" rsynced copies are
>still problematic, for reasons that I wouldn't want to have to figure out if I
>were in a situation of actually needing the backup of the restore point.
So I think that going forward, my strategy will be to just make sure I can plug
in external media for "on demand" snapshots, while letting the regularly
scheduled ones take place locally.
Thanks anyway.
Karl Knechtel {:>
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On Tuesday, November 19th, 2024 at 8:45 PM, Derek via Bit-dev
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> I think the short answer is no.
>
> A better strategy might be to sometimes use a target directory on the
> external drive for creating the original Timeshift backup.
>
> Or you might manually copy the timeshift directory to an empty directory on
> the external drive using rsync with the --hard-links option.
>
> - Derek
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