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Back In Time vs Timeshift: catalog facts
Back In Time	Timeshift
Free The software is free under its open-source licence. Hosting, hardware and external…	Free Free and open source under the GPL 2.0 or later. Maintained by the Linux Mint team.
Linux	Linux
Unchanged files are hard-linked rather than copied, so each snapshot looks complete while using very little extra disk…	Rolls a broken update back without reinstalling Works on any filesystem with rsync, or natively on BTRFS
It is Linux-only and inherits rsync's weaknesses, including no built-in encryption and slow handling of very large file…	Backs up system files, not your documents, by default Linux only
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-2.0	License: GPL-2.0-or-later
Not stated if an account is needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026

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