How do I get timeshift to stop backing up everytime I am just simply updating one application?

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It’s your system, you can do whatever you want with it, I don’t care.

I disagree with your assessment of the necessity of my post. I did not intend it for only you, but also for the benefit of anyone else reading who might listen to you, not knowing any better.

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Dear @Locutus , IIUC, it seems you forget or misunderstand an important thing.
This is not a vocal communication place, or a personal messaging app, where people talk in personal level, and messages are destroyed or almost unreachable after a day. It is a technical forum where all topics and posts serve as a knowledge database for future readers.

Your own individual use case is super rare, while you request it is treated as the opposite.

Please, try to understand the spirit of a Help Forum.

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Pretty much this entire thread should have been over at post 5. The arch wiki doesn’t lie.

That being said. There’s a package or a hook that has been created by the OP causing the time shift thing. It just needs to be removed or uninstalled

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I don’t think they want to remove it. I think they want it to only trigger on a system update, not a package installation.

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Oh. Man I’m lost. I gave up on that stuff too long ago at this point I think.

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I do not use timeshift.
If you installed a package timeshift-autosnap for timeshift, I think it has an option to stop creating backup:
Try to use the environment variable SKIP_AUTOSNAP=true

For example: Reinstall a package without creating backup. pikaur is your favorite AUR helper.
$ sudo SKIP_AUTOSNAP=true pikaur -S {packagename}

See the official readme:
https://gitlab.com/gobonja/timeshift-autosnap

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Exactly what they want and it’s still a bad idea in my book. Rather one package update or a system update Timeshift should always be invoked to do a snapshot just in case something goes sideways.

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As explained in previous posts, updating any package without updating the whole packages’ pool is not safe.
If you want to narrow down the amount of timeshift snapshots safely, you may want to disable the relevant timeshift pacman hook, so it would not create snapshots for removing packages or installing new ones, and manually creating timeshift snapshots before, or after a full system upgrade.

About hooks.
How to override hooks.

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