timeshift-autosnap not working with yay update, but only with yay AUR will also be updated with other packages too. (1/5) upgrading linux [------------------------------------------------------------] 100% (2/5) upgradin…

I’ve read your post multiple times now, and I do not understand what the problem is that you are referring to. Could you elaborate?

I recently read a post that it is efficetive to use yay -Syu for updating system rather than pacman -Syu, since pacman updates only packages from official repository whereas yay updates both official and AUR package. That’s why I used yay to update my system but timeshift-autosnap is not taking any…

Timeshift does make snapshots on a scheduled time, it has got nothing to do with Arch or AUR updates. It does take a snapshot from the system, including all installed updates at the time of making it. If you want to have Timeshift create a snapshot of the system with each update, then you have to s…

He wants to use timeshift-autosnap to trigger a back up prior to executing the update. This way if something goes wrong he can roll back. I believe this only works for BTRFS file systems and also requires grub-btrfs so you can pick a snapshot from grub to boot into.

[image] PRISONER: it is efficetive to use yay -Syu All you need to do is type yay and enter.

Ah, I understand now, thanks. I do the exact same thing, updating using yay -Syu, and timeshift-autosnap does make snapshots for me whenever I update the system. Strange. How does your /etc/timeshift-autosnap.conf look?

This is the wrong part of the output. timeshift-autosnap is a pre-transaction hook. It doesn’t matter if you use yay or pacman. Can you show us the entire pacman output?

I have disabled timeshifts scheduled snapshots and then an update came and I updated with yay the timeshift worked

Right, you should see it working if you look at the output from the pre-transaction hooks.

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