On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 11:44 AM Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming via blfs-support <[email protected]> wrote:
> Subject: How can I make an efficient backup or clone of my basic linux > from scratch (lfs) system? > > > What backup or cloning software should I use? Is dd sufficient? What is > the proper command for dd? > > Currently i am using the following command only: > > $ sudo dd if=/dev/sdb2 > of=/home/teo-en-ming/teo-en-ming-linux-2020.03-final-dd.img > I created a bootable USB flash drive with Clonezilla on it. I boot from this flash drive on several computers, including ones that host Linux and Windows, and make a full drive backup. Clonezilla is smart enough to skip over free filesystem blocks, so I'll bet it skips over the entire contents of swap partitions. It also compresses the blocks it does save.
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