Clonezilla question

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Sun Dec 10 06:58:49 UTC 2017


Phil schreef op 09-12-2017 23:56:

> So, how can I clone my laptop's SSD without a second computer?

You can do so from a live run of any Ubuntu DVD.

CloneZilla also allows one to create a restoration DVD but this implies 
that you already have made a backup and it is probably also a bit silly 
in that the entire backup has to sit on those (multiple) DVDs.

The only real way to create a backup of your main system while that 
system is running, is using snapshots.

(E.g. you would need to reserve some 10GB of snapshot space on your 
drive while at the same time using LVM as your partitioning tool).

So you must always reboot into a live session and then you can access 
your drives without issue.

(The above limitation does not imply if you are not making backups of 
the complete system; ie. you can make backups of data at any time, but 
these would be file-level backups and not images).




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