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Timeshift failed me twice

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No matter if I use Timeshift or preinstalled Backups both recovery tools have failed me when trying to recover my system. From time to time it happens that installed updates crash my machine. It simply won't boot. Then I reach out for my Timeshift snapshots and very often the computer can't use it.

I reinstall Ubuntu from my pen drive and install Timeshift. After this is done I pick latest snapshot of my system when it works fine and hit "restore" to get all my files and programs off the snapshot. Last night the snapshot failed to restore because apparently TPM chip failed to connect upon boot.

I've had issues restoring system using Backups as well. I don't believe a lot of people have so many problems with it. Especially when I know some people use these tools in entreprise environment. Some system admins use third party software but some stick with what Ubuntu comes with.

Home users use these tools as well so I don't believe it's inherently faulty feature of Ubuntu. But what it is that I do the these tools keep failing me ?

If you need more info just ask and I'll provide.

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Ray
Ubuntu includes software developed by others. Just because it's one of their packages doesn't mean it's a problem with Ubuntu's software and that you need to resort to third party software. I used Timeshift for a few months and gave up. I personally use `rsnapshot`. It isn't what you want -- a one button click restore. It can backup your `/etc` files and then you have to reinstall the programs and copy the `/etc` files over. But for a process which we hope you apply once in a blue moon, I find that it generally works.
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