• Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
    3·
    10 months ago

    To add another comment to your reply, have you tried it personally?

    I’d like to back up my system before doing the switch. What do you recommend I use? Clonezilla with an external USB drive all plugged in using a USB hub?

    • joojmachine@lemmy.ml
      3·
      9 months ago

      I haven’t tried the Surface images due to not having one, but I am using their Silverblue images to make the whole NVIDIA drivers thing a bit easier on my system.

      Also I haven’t needed to backup my system in over a year now (I stopped hopping with Silverblue) so I don’t remember the solution I used, but this seems good.

    • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch
      2·
      9 months ago

      From your live stick, bevor install, do

      # cp /dev/your-disk /your/image.img

      or to save space:

      # gzip < /dev/your-disk > /your/image.img.gz

      or faster but might need to install it first:

      # lz4 /dev/your-disk /your/image.img.lz4

      To get a list of your disks, there’s lsblk.

      I recommend partition-wise backup, it’s always a bother to extract/shrink individual partitions in images of whole disks. That would be /dev/your-disk1 etc