Enable automatic Timeshift snapshots for automatic software updates.

[Nihon-Ryori]

Software updates can be initiated manually or performed automatically.

For software updates initiated manually, you have the option to create a snapshot manually using TimeShift beforehand.

As far as I know, for updates installed automatically via Update Manager, there is no option to have Timeshift take an automatic snapshot before such an update is installed.

I would like to suggest adding a menu option in Update Manager or in Timeshift that would allow this.

It’s possible that automatic time-shift snapshots—which are typically taken several times a week or even a day—are common only among BTRFS users, because with BTRFS, a snapshot takes only a fraction of a second regardless of the data size and uses less than 1 KB during creation.

For users of ext4 and similar file systems, this likely makes less sense, since a snapshot can take hours and quickly consume gigabytes of space.