10 easy ways to restore your Linux system Book

by Ravi Kumar Ankam · Published May 5, 2016 · Updated May 26, 2016

10 easy ways to restore your Linux system Book

10 easy ways to restore your Linux system

How Does System Restore Work in Windows?
How Does System Restore Work on Linux?
What’s the Difference Between System Snapshots and Backups?
TimeShift
How it Works
Cronopete
How it Works
Back In Time
How it Works
Systemback
How it Works
Snapper
How it Works
How to Backup and Restore Installed Applications
Advanced System Rollback Solutions
Rsnapshot
Obnam
LVM Snapshots

How Does System Restore Work on Linux?

It doesn’t — at least not under that name. You won’t find the feature called “System Restore

”in your distro’s menus. You’ll have to find an approach that suits you and install the necessary

applications. Most of them are based on the same principle as System Restore on Windows.

They create snapshots of your system at specified intervals and let you roll back to a selected

point in time.

Before diving into the apps, let’s briefly explain what system snapshots are.

What’s the Difference Between System Snapshots and Backups?

Semantics may vary, but generally speaking, backups are copies of files kept in a location separate from the files themselves. Backups rarely include everything on a disk; when they do, they’re called disk images or disk clones . This type of backup “ mirrors ” the entire disk,