Who has practice experience with Foxclone, Rescuezilla or Clonezilla?

[Bas G. Roufs]

Who has practice experience with Foxclone, Rescuezilla or Clonezilla?

Request for advise: cloning a *Ubuntu 24.04 LTS system from a smaller to a bigger SSD.


Dear Fellow *Ubuntu users.


At present I am working with a fresh install of Kubuntu 24.04 LTS at a Lenovo Thinkpad X230, with the following specs at present:

SSD of a bit less then 233 GiB, 250GB, Samsung EVO;

4 GB RAM.

Right now, I am using about 90 GiB, a bit less then 97 GB: system and user files.

I have much more user data at two external hard disks - from a laptop that has been stolen at the 27th of January 2024.

Some weeks ago, I made a fresh, manual install of Kubuntu 24.04 LTS after formatting the 250 GB SSD with a GPT partition table and ext4 via GPARTED from  a Ventoy stick.

I want to add an SSD of 1 TB and keep the old smaller SSD  - as an extra partition for Timeshift system backups. I already found out that both the old SSD and the new one can be inserted into the Thinkpad X230. By the way - for user file backups I use now Backintime.

The 4 GB RAM consists of 2 memory banks of 2 GB each.
I wanna replace them with an upgrade that fits in the X230: 2 memory banks of 8 GB each - DDR 3, 1600 MhZ, together 16 GB RAM.

Now, I get back to the core issue: the compressed «clone» image I want to make from the old 250 GB SSD. I want to do the following actions.

First of all, I want to create a compressed «clone» ISO of the whole system at the old small SSD. Then, I want to put this ISO at a Ventoy USB stick of 128 GB. For security, I'll put the same clone at another USB stick with the same size.

On 11-07-25, I'll go to a computer repair shop from whom I gonna buy the 1 TB SSD and the two 8 GB memory banks. It's owner is willing to insert those things into my laptop. After that hardware work, I want to do the following.

>From one of the Ventoy usb sticks I'll work with, I first launch the latest version of Gparted live. From there, I want to format both the new and the old SSD with a GPT partition table. After doing that, I want to format both disks with ext4 - still from Gparted. After doing that, I want to extract the compressed clone to the new SSD, so that I'll directly have the complete system with all the software, setting, etc. at that new SSD.The old SSD I want to use from that moment onwards for a Timeshift system backup - only system files, no user data!

Now, I get to my core question. I am considering to use «Foxclone» for this project:
http://foxclone.org/.
Does anyone have experience with Foxclone in a similar situation?

Foxclone is a gui working togethering with the terminal application «Partclone»:

https://partclone.org/.

There are two other simlar systems I am considering too for this project:

Rescuezilla

https://rescuezilla.com/

Clonezilla

https://clonezilla.org/

Any practice experience in similar situations with either of those two packages?

Yours.

Bas.

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