Timeshift - Installing on CLDX-21

Hello first post here. :grinning:

I have considerable Linux experience (10 years plus) but with Gentoo-based, only Sabayon.

I have installed CLDX-21 and am looking to install Timeshift, but I have no experience with ebuilds and so on.

Could someone please steer me in the right direction?

Let me know any information required.

inxi output below, and maybe let me know as well how to use codes here.

chris@calculate ~ $ inxi -Fxz
System:
Kernel: 5.10.32-calculate x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A
Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 Distro: Calculate Linux Desktop 21 Xfce
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Inspiron 5770 v: N/A serial:
Mobo: Dell model: 0XH3XD v: A00 serial: UEFI: Dell v: 1.1.8
date: 08/15/2018
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 38.3 Wh condition: 38.3/42.0 Wh (91%)
model: SMP DELL Y3F7Y6B status: Full
CPU:
Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-8550U bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Kaby Lake rev: A L2 cache: 8192 KiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
bogomips: 31999
Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 400/4000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800
3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 795 7: 800 8: 800
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 620 vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel
bus ID: 00:02.0
Device-2: Realtek Integrated Webcam type: USB driver: uvcvideo
bus ID: 1-5:3
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: intel
resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel UHD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2)
v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.5 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: Dell
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.10.32-calculate
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet vendor: Dell
driver: r8169 v: kernel port: d000 bus ID: 02:00.0
IF: eth0 state: down mac:
Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Dell driver: ath10k_pci v: kernel port: d000 bus ID: 03:00.0
IF: wlan0 state: up mac:
Device-3: Qualcomm Atheros type: USB driver: btusb bus ID: 1-7:5
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 5.69 TiB used: 9.94 GiB (0.2%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST2000LM007-1R8174 size: 1.82 TiB
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Micron model: 1100 SATA 256GB size: 238.47 GiB
ID-3: /dev/sdc type: USB vendor: Western Digital model: WD My Book 25EE
size: 3.64 TiB
RAID:
Hardware-1: Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci
v: 3.0 bus ID: 00:17.0
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 19.56 GiB used: 9.79 GiB (50.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdc18
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 31.09 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 53.0 C mobo: 46.0 C sodimm: 45.0 C gpu: amdgpu
temp: 52.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0
Info:
Processes: 215 Uptime: 19m Memory: 15.54 GiB used: 2.09 GiB (13.4%)
Init: SysVinit rc: OpenRC v: 0.42.1 runlevel: default Compilers:
gcc: 10.2.0 clang: 11.1.0 Packages: 1165 Shell: Bash v: 5.0.18
inxi: 3.1.06
chris@calculate ~ $

I live east coast Australia, UTC +10 so please allow for timezone.

Thanks

Chris Turner
wizardfromoz

Add guru overlay, it’s there.

http://gpo.zugaina.org/Overlays/guru/app-backup

@polaca57 - thanks for that, I have the download, now I need to know what to do with it.

Thanks, Wizard

Here is step by step:
sudo emerge layman
sudo layman -L
sudo layman -a guru
sudo layman -S

create a file in /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/timeshift
paste this into it
=app-backup/timeshift-21.09.1-r1 ~amd64

Last step:
sudo emerge timeshift

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Legend!

I had to run 649 updates first and then install layman

sudo emerge -S layman

before I could use the commands, with the latest

timeshift-22.06.1-r1

…but then it all came together and I have taken a full snapshot I can test tomorrow by blowing Calculate away and restoring.

Thank you ever so much @polaca57 for your help.

Wizard