Problems selecting Drives for Backups
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 42/100
- Issue type
- Bug
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- linux
- Domain
- desktop, operating-systems
Research direction
Start by reproducing the drive-selection list in Timeshift using the Debian, KDE Plasma, rsync, and Btrfs setup described. Inspect how the backup-drive choices are presented and verify how Linux drive names are available. Done means identical-model drives can be distinguished by the names assigned to them.
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Description
Describe the bug
I would like to see 👀 the actual names of my drives that I named.
All of my drives are of the same brand make and model.
So I don't know which drive is which, because the actual NAMES of the drives I placed,
does not show up in the list.
For example: it only shows:
Samsung SSD 9100 Pro
Samsung SSD 9100 Pro
Samsung SSD 9100 Pro
Samsung SSD 9100 Pro
How do I know which drive is what? 🤷♀️
I don't know which drive is the boot, Home, Steam or Data drives because it won't show
the names I assigned to the drives.
System:
- Linux Distribution Name and Version: [Debian v13.3]
- Desktop: [KDE Plasma v6.3.6]
- Timeshift Version: [v24.06.6] "no newer versions seen when doing updates"
- Timeshift Mode [rsync]:
- Display Server: [wayland]
- Formats of Drives: [btrfs]
Thank you for taking the time to read my concerns 🥰
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