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Does anyone know of an easy way to create a snapshot of the hard drive on linux? if anything go wrong you can back back and restore it back.
by hathym 5y ago
Does anyone know of an easy way to create a snapshot of the hard drive on linux? if anything go wrong you can back back and restore it back.
- dv_dt 5y agoClonezilla and an external drive https://clonezilla.org/ https://clonezilla.org/
- mattbillenstein 5y agodd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/other/foo.img bs=1M and perhaps filter through gzip or something...
- mst 5y agoIf you're using lvm or zfs it's trivial. If not, you're probably going to have to take a backup the old fashioned way.
- moviuro 5y ago# dd if=/dev/sdX bs=4k status=progress conv=noerror | zstdmt - > /mnt/backup.zstd
- thedubster 5y agoTimeshift
- ridgered4 5y agoNot exactly an answer to your question but Linux Mint's Timeshift has saved me a couple times.