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

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