Why is Timeshift not on the official Ubuntu repos?

It has become a standard, isn't there a way to include it in the discover store?

Solution 1:

To briefly answer the question... it's because Timeshift is the work of a individual software developer.

Note: As of 19.04, it is in the repos now.

For those who don't know what Timeshift is...

The closest thing to a Windows-like restore point is by using Timeshift. I use it to save snapshots to an external USB hard drive. Although it can, it's normally not used for backing up your /home directory, just system-level changes. Use Backups (Déjà Dup) for backing up /home files.

Timeshift is a system restore utility which takes snapshots of the system at regular intervals. These snapshots can be restored at a later date to undo system changes. Creates incremental snapshots using rsync or BTRFS snapshots using BTRFS tools.

More information at https://github.com/teejee2008/timeshift

For pre-19.04 add the PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:teejee2008/ppa

And install it:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install timeshift