I’m going to make a backup of 2TB SSD today. I will use clonezilla mainly because that’s all I know. But do you recommend any other ways for any reason?

I want to keep the process simple and easy. And I will likely take backup once a month or so repeatedly. It doesn’t have to be ready all the time. If you need more clarification, ask away.

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    22 hours ago

    dd if=/dev/sda0 conv=sync,noerror bs=128K status=progress | gzip -c file.gz

    You can add an additional pipe in there if you need to ssh it to another machine if you don’t have room on the original.

    • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
      21·
      20 hours ago

      I did a thing like this but with a ios command that wrote the disk to image and piped it to ssh but then piped it back to a waiting drive. It was great as you could pull the disk and boot right off it. Do you know if that can be done with dd?

      • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        12 hours ago

        I’d probably dd it straight on to the drive, but I’m sure you could get it to go to New Orleans and play the Macarana before it came back if you used enough pipes.