Hello when I try to backup my computer, it ends with an error (it just say error so I don’t know from where it come) can someone give me some help please 
Are you sure your not just running out of room?
You have to have enough free disk space to store backups…
yes 300go free disk space
https://www.makeuseof.com/use-timeshift-backup-and-restore-linux-snapshots/
rsync needs a first ‘full backup’ and then next time, it will backup anything thats changed since the last ‘full snapshot’ as partial images, to save space.
because of the way rsync works, you may be having permissions errors?
you’ll need to dig through the logs to find out.
BTRFS was designed from the start to support COW and incremental backups, its built in.
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Hello,
I had the same problem with rsync error.
After considering the sources, I found that there is a format problem on total_size.
Regex expression looks for a number with “,” (comma) separator, but probably due to local parameters, I have “.” (dot) separators instead.
This causes total_size to be evaluated to 0, which causes the exit in error.
There is probably an easier way to solve it, but I copy the sources of Timeshift on my computer, then modified the false separator, recompile, then reinstall.
Its working fine now.
But I supposed that it would be easier to change the local parameters in order to use a comma separator instead of dot separator.
But I did not find the way to change this local parameter.
Hope it helps.
Regards
Charles
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