Today I had to revert my system back to my last backup in Timeshift. It was my first time doing so under EOS, but unfortunately, I hit a brick wall. The LiveCD does not include Timeshift, which normally is fine as I could usually add it via terminal, except that I could not. There were lots of errors that prevented me from adding Timeshift in the LiveCD environment. I am assuming its because the system needed to be updated, probably something conflicting??
I had to then download an Ubuntu livecd, run it and add Timeshift, which worked and revert my EOS to a working system.
Is there anyway to get Timeshift added to the EOS LiveCD for reasons stated above?
While we suggest it, we obviously have no control over AUR packages as we are not the maintainers. That being said you need to refresh the repositories.
Unfortunately, that usually doesn’t work out well on a livecd environment, at least from my experience. It would be easier to just include the app EOS promotes to use for backup, link above, on the LiveCD.
I had to do the same with a Manjaro stick because Timeshift could not be installed in the EOS live session. When I suggested to put Timeshift into the ISO I was just dumped.
Good point. Also, I was lucky to have my original EOS install usb handy. If you can’t boot into your PC and can’t download and install an updated EOS iso/usb, which is what @BONK is using, then you are stuck. The best solution is to include Timeshift on the LiveCD.