As far as I can tell - Windows restore produces blank/new/clean installation. The reason for that - there really is not any installation media other than to create it by this process.
On the other hand - you can just download any Linux installation media and typically there is no need to activate it. With the exception of commercial distributions such as RHEL, SLES/SLED, etc. dd would be backup and restore solution - So that is quite different kind of animal. I personally find dd pretty slow at creating backup and restoring from it. Clean Linux install with system setup restore is order of magnitude faster than dd of Windows restore for that matter. It takes about half an hour to install Linux + all the apps + update - maybe hour if you are taking notes. dd would probably take overnight+ to dump 512GB disk and about the same time to restore. Windows + apps + updates is probably a full day job. I hope it helps, Tomas On Tue, 2019-10-15 at 13:21 -0700, OR Linux Jobs wrote: > Hi Portland > > I'm not in immediate need of an answer to this question. > I'm only researching this for future possible needs. > > Usually, Windows PC's offer a way to create system restore DVD discs. > These are created by a utility that comes with the PC, and the first disc > is bootable, with a utility to use the other discs to replace the hard disk > on the PC with the image captured at the time that the system restore discs > were generated. > > Is there something like this (easy to use GUI) in Linux Mint? > > I realize that a dd command could be used to generate the image and write > it out. Which might be the best option if there is no such utility ready > made. > > Neil > [email protected] > Twitter @linuxoregon > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
