• Cyborganism
    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·
      10 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·
      10 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