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!

  • @Pacmanlives
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    63 months ago

    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

  • Dr Jekell
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    43 months ago

    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.

    • @WeebLifeOP
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      13 months ago

      It won’t be an issue for both PCs to access it. I’ll try making another partition. Thanks!

      • Dr Jekell
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        13 months ago

        It’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.

        • @WeebLifeOP
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          13 months ago

          OK, thanks for the clarification. I wasn’t planning on having them using the drive at the same time so I shouldn’t have any issues.

  • @themusicman
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    23 months ago

    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