Can I delete previous backups, without affecting following backups, Since TimeShift (RSync) make increamental backups.

i’m picasso.

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You should be able to highlight the ones that you want to remove then click on the delete button.

From what I understand is that each backup is just the difference between the original backup and the current system.

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each backup is just the difference between the original backup and the current system.

So what if I Deleted the very first backup itself (which is manual backup), does the following backups become obsolute since the follwing backups created links from the original backup ?

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Timeshift is smart enough, they deal with that.

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Thnaks man.

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To be honest I haven’t had the need or the time to delve that deeply into how Timeshift works sorry.

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Thank You.

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