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Create and restore an ssd image using dd in different filesystems (lemmy.ml)

submitted 14 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I bought a laptop with windows 11 instaled in its 256gb nmve ssd. I want to install linux but I want to first create an image of the ssd and store it in an external 4tb ssd with a ext4 filesystem (that I use for different backups) so in case I want to sell the laptop later I can restore windows 11 to the same ssd from the image. So what i'm planning to do is:

dd if=/dev/drive_device of=external_ssd/images/windows11.img

for creating the image and swapping if and of for restoring. My question is if creating the image of a drive with a windows 11 filesystem and storing it in a ext4 filesystem is possible or can have any issue. I ask this because I read that in the case of cloning the target drive will end up with the filesystem of the source drive in case they are different, which caused me some hesitation.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

You 100% want to use Clonezilla for this job. It should be on everyone's Ventoy stick.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

What are the pros of using Clonezilla instead of dd, in terms of simplicity the command that I wrote it's hard to beat.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

Backups only used blocks. Backup to or from various locations, NFS shares, ftp, WebDAV, ssh server, samba, etc. Encryption of the images, backup of single partitions or whole disks.

If you want to deploy to several machines at once it also has a load of tools for that too.