Who has practice experience with Foxclone, Rescuezilla or Clonezilla?

[Ian Bruntlett]

Hi Bas,

On Fri, 5 Jul 2024 at 21:04, Bas G. Roufs <basroufs at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for your reply.
>
No problem :)


> Op ma 1 jul 2024 om 22:57 schreef Ian Bruntlett <ian.bruntlett at gmail.com>:
> However, one thing I made sure of was this: I made sure that after we
> installed the RAM, the first thing I ran (from a VENTOY stick) was
> memtest96+ v7 to make sure that the memory was working OK. My reasoning was
> that I didn't want bad RAM to lead to random crashes and potential data
> loss.
>
> Sounds very reasonable. Where to find the package you aim at?  The latest
> stable version of  «System Rescue» is one of the ISO's I have at a Ventoy
> stick. Go to this page:
> https://www.system-rescue.org/System-tools/, then scroll to this:
> «Hardware testing». The first line under this heading says this:
> «(...)
>  You can run Memtest86+ from the boot menu, both in BIOS/Legacy and UEFI
> mode.
> (...)»
> Is this what you refer to?
>

Yes. I have a small page of links to free software here:
https://github.com/ian-bruntlett/TECH-Manuals/blob/main/tm-free-software.md
where I have a link to memtest86+ here: https://www.memtest.org/


> Finally, I have a question about Foxclone, the software I want to use to
> get a compressed clone image iso of my whole SSD to the same 128 GB Ventoy
> stick - Kubuntu 24.04 LTS plus some user data, 97 GB. From that USB stick,
> I am using now about 10%. A compressed image will be about 30% less - so,
> about 67.9 GB out of 97 GB.  So far, so good. However, the devil is in the
> detail.... Look at this page:
>
I don't know anything about Foxclone...

BW,


Ian


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