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.
https://www.fsarchiver.org/quickstart/ It’s faster and more efficient than just
dd:)HD Clone X cloner Or MSP360 (Cloud Berry) Standalone Backup
Both cost money but not a lot and are very reliable.
Do you want to use desktop app or systemd timer?
Oh I’ve been using Acronis for this purpose for a while, nice to know foss tools exist that accomplish the same thing, I’ll probably use this next time.
dd if=/dev/sda0 conv=sync,noerror bs=128K status=progress | gzip -c file.gzYou 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.
Does the data change a lot? Does it need to be a block-based backup (e.g. bootable)? Otherwise, you could go with rsync or restic or borg to only refresh your backup copy with the changed files. This should be far quicker than taking a complete backup of the whole SSD.
Thank you for the insight. Changes are incremental I suppose. You are correct that it’s more efficient. But I kind of want to back up the whole disk since I can keep a bootable drive with it right?
Borg for files. Proxmox snapshots for the VMs.
Foxclone every time. Excellent piece of kit.
First time hearing of this. Any particular reasons?
The GUI is intuitive. It boots initially into an OS with a bunch of useful tools. The disk cloning software is straightforward and it works perfectly - I can vouch for this since I’ve had to resort to it on a couple of occasions restoring my system from the back up images. It’s also not complicated like Clonezilla.
Thank you! Great info. After some reading, I went with Rescuezilla which is yet another GUI for Clonezilla. I might give the foxclone next time!
I use dd.
Based. Yes. It is an option.
