Post #3728015
2026-07-11 00:11 UTC
OK, I want to be helpful. Are you trying to back up the entire disk? Like Clone one drive to a file or another drive?
Or are you wanting to create backups of the data and user information?
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@jbrains@sh.itjust.works 2026-07-11 02:41
First, thank you for trying. There’s what I want and there’s what I’m trying to do. 😉 Waving my magic wand, I’d like a bootable backup of my laptop’s internal hard drive. This is what SuperDuper does. I would like it to be straightforward: I issue one command, then I can boot from the external hard disk to which I have backed up. For bonus points, restore is merely backup in the other direction. That is what I’d like. I’m cloning a drive with Clonezilla and tomorrow I’ll try to boot to the backup drive. I would like to understand how restore works, but frankly, I’m not optimistic and I’m not currently eager to risk screwing up my laptop’s internal hard disk.