I make a fresh clone around once a month. In Windows, I can make a bootable clone of my ~75% full 2TB system drive in under five hours using Macrium Reflect, while I continue to use the system for ordinary work, and I can keep data files on the clone drive up to date in close to real time, with versioned backups, using FreeFileSync with RealTimeSync. My main goal is to be able to recover from catastrophic system corruption or drive failure as quickly and easily as possible, with minimal data loss. (I think I was actually a month late in realizing that 18.2 Sonya had been released.)Īs a future Windows refugee, I’d appreciate some good articles on cloning, imaging, snapshotting, and backup options for Linux (and for Linux Mint in particular). I don’t visit the Linux Mint Blog regularly enough to reliably catch news like this in a timely fashion. MintReport lists these reports and generates stack traces for them. That feature is the gathering of crash reports, using apport as a backend, a report is made whenever an application crashes. I say not fully because this tool received its codename (â€œmintReportâ€), because we started implementing it and because one of its feature is now completely ready and will be shipped with Linux Mint 18.3. This is an ambitious project and weâ€™re still not sure it will land in the next release, at least not fullyâ€¦

Lefebvre also went on to talk about another tool that will generate crash reports and forward them off to the Mint development team, â€œAt the end of the last development cycle I mentioned the idea of a tool which would bring information to users and help them troubleshoot issue. Weâ€™re currently working with Tony to improve translations and desktop integration for Timeshift, add window progress support into it and improve its support for HiDPI.â€ The two applications will be installed by default and complement each others in Linux Mint 18.3. Itâ€™s a great companion to mintBackup which focuses on personal data. Timeshift is an excellent tool which focuses on creating and restoring system snapshots. We talked to Tony George, the developer behind Timeshift.

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