Scheduled tasks stopped working after upgrade to v17.1

[Åke Engelbrektson]

I tried clean reinstall but didn't help. There is no script at /etc/cron.daily/. I found /etc/cron.hourly/timeshift-hourly, but I've never configured hourly schedule, only daily.
After reinstall I manually created snapshot, but neither that or boot snapshot was found by timeshift. They are present at snapshot directory.
Here's output...

$ sudo timeshift --check
[sudo] password for eson:
Boot snapshots are enabled
Last boot snapshot not found
Tagged snapshot '2017-01-21_11-41-51': boot
Daily snapshots are enabled
Last daily snapshot not found
Tagged snapshot '2017-01-21_11-41-51': daily

timeshift.json is OK but doesn't match gui.log. Here's related part of first log...

[11:45:11] Main: save_app_config()
[11:45:11] SnapshotRepo: available()
[11:45:11] is_available: ok
[11:45:11] Program settings saved: /etc/timeshift.json
[11:45:11] crontab -l
[11:45:11] crontab -l
[11:45:11] Cron task exists: /etc/cron.hourly/timeshift-hourly
[11:45:11] Cron task exists: /etc/cron.d/timeshift-boot
[11:45:11] unmount_target_device()
[11:45:11] clean_logs()

[Tony George (teejee2008)]

Timeshift creates an hourly script for creating hourly/daily/weekly/monthly snapshots. This job runs every hour but creates snapshots only when required.

Please check if the correct backup device is selected in Settings window.

[Åke Engelbrektson (eson)]

Yes, it is. It's on a separate auto mounted disk and manual snapshot works perfect.

[Tony George (teejee2008)]

Fixed in v17.2. Timeshift will create the script /etc/cron.d/timeshift-hourly if any of the Hourly/Daily/Weekly/Monthly levels are selected.

[Åke Engelbrektson (eson)]

Thanks! Working fine now.

[PJO (lexicographer)]

I had the same problem but was running hourly, daily, weekly and monthly (on Linux Mint 18.1), backing up to an external drive. Didn't discover it had stopped on the 14th until yesterday. Things _didn't_ resume after updating to 17.2.

I then deleted all snapshots and made a manual backup. Since then a monthly backup has been made but not yet any daily, weekly or hourly backups.

[PJO (lexicographer)]

Ok, it's working now.

Monthly was done then Weekly followed two hours later for some reason, Daily and Weekly followed at hourly intervals.

I noticed MAILTO in the timeshift-hourly file. Are you planning to add mail notification? I think some kind of notification on the desktop would be great.

[PJO (lexicographer)]

:-(

just one hourly backup and then no more

/:-(