Hello, I have both backintime and backintime (root) working presumably fine and creating wonderful backups on my external SSD. Unfortunately, when I try to restore something just to check, they both fail. Both revert to this behavior: rsync --recursive --times --devices --specials --hard-links --…

Probably related to this: [image] PSA: rsync might be broken and potentially less stable Applications Right now this has been making the rounds on ycombinator, reddit, x, mastodon, … commit relevant to the issue: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/commit/…

[image] huebi: Probably related to this: No, I don’t think so. [image] dexic: Any ideas of what I might have done wrong? If I look at your messages, it seems, that you tried to restore a file not to the original place but in the root-folder of your installation. If you tried this as n…

Backintime restoring fails

General system Applications

huebi June 1, 2026, 10:45pm 2

Probably related to this:

Update rsync for fixes. Alternatively use a fork.