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Error Snapshots cannot be created in Live CD mode #728

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ciosbel opened this issue Mar 14, 2021 · 6 comments
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Error Snapshots cannot be created in Live CD mode #728

ciosbel opened this issue Mar 14, 2021 · 6 comments

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@ciosbel
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ciosbel commented Mar 14, 2021

Describe the bug
When I use the GUI or run the CLI commands, I always receive the following error:
E: Snapshots cannot be created in Live CD mode
Of course my system is not a live one. It's a properly installed ubuntu 20.04 on an odroid arm64 machine.
The distro is a one officially supported https://wiki.odroid.com/odroid-c2/os_images/ubuntu/v4.1 installed a couple of days ago, hence quite fresh.
The GUI allows me to properly create the /etc/timeshift.json but the create button is always disabled.
The external drive is an ext4 drive (raid1) with sufficient disk space (configured with rsync).
I've manually created the /timeshift directory.
I've followed the README to properly install/setup.
Thank you in advance.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
Just run a simple sudo timeshift --check o sudo timeshift --create to always get the error message.

Expected behavior
It should allows me to take snapshot as per app goal.

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I attach a log of a create command.
2021-03-14_12-01-37_backup.log

System:

  • Linux Distribution Name and Version: Ubuntu 20.04 Linux XYZ 3.16.85-65 installer links are broken #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jan 18 13:32:38 UTC 2021 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux
  • Desktop mate/gnome/xfce4
  • Application Version Ubuntu: 20.04, Timeshift: timeshift/focal,now 20.03+ds-2 arm64.
@ddetton
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ddetton commented Jun 25, 2021

I'm running Timeshift on an RPi Model 4-8GB running Raspberry Pi OS Buster and I'm seeing basically the same issue only mine says Live USB Mode. Have you figured out how to get the Create button enabled?

@ciosbel
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ciosbel commented Jun 26, 2021

Nope. I ended up using BackInTime.

@juliapaci
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same issue, timeshift cli arch linux

@lillian-alicia
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I am having the same issue with my Raspberry Pi 4b 1Gb. However, I am also using berryboot to dual boot two versions of raspbian, so that may be the issue in this case.

@niubility000
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I think it just does not support linux arm64. Hope it can be fixed soon.

@juliapaci
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Okay, Ive fixed it, kind of. i just installed it from the AUR and cleared all my cache instead of compiling from source (rip if your not using arch :(.)

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