So where is my data now?

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
linux, python
Domain
operating-systems

Research direction

No source file or test is named. Start at the apt installed mintupdate entry point and trace how it launches Timeshift on Mint 20.3 with Btrfs, then inspect the /run/timeshift/3494058/backup/timeshift behavior. Done means reproducing or explaining the rsync growth and defining a safe fix or clear user-facing failure path.

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Description

BUG

Describe the bug
apt installed mintupdate, ran it. Mint 20.3.

The application said something about having to create a snapshot first, so I let it. It opened up timeshift, and it started creating a snapshot with rsync (which I found odd, as I'm using btrfs, and I'd expect it to simply snapshot the btrfs volumes).

It ran for something like ten hours before my connected Windows machine lost its Samba mount on the Mint server.

I connected the display to the Mint box. It had a GUI warning about the space on / being depleted. Which is interesting, since I had a little over 100GB free with 20-some GB to back up.

I assumed this was to do with timeshift being buggy, so in an open SSH session, I searched for where timeshift might've spammed my / partition, and in /run/timeshift/3494058/backup/timeshift was 100+ GB of garbage.

I deleted it.

ZSH immediately stopped working. E.g.

zsh: command not found: ls 
_z_dirs:2: no such file or directory: /home/daniel/.z
_z:35: command not found: date
prompt_status:5: command not found: wc
_z:63: command not found: env
_z:63: command not found: env

That makes no sense in a world where something like timeshift isn't insane. Couldn't reboot. Tried rebooting with the GUI. Got a dialog with boxes instead of characters. Couldn't reboot. Had to turn off the power, and now I have a BusyBox prompt complaining that everything to boot the system is missing.

Where is my data?

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