• 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