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Re: Making a hard drive image

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Gordon wrote:
> On 2026-05-03, Axel <none@not.here> wrote:
>> I want a full back up of my 500Gb NVME disk. I tried Foxclone, but I
>> found that the image can only be written back to the original drive,
>> which pretty much negates it's usefulness.
> To be correct the image needs to be written to the same size or larger
> disk/partition, and yes down to the byte.

Ok

>
>> I want an image of the NVME
>> drive I can use on any disk to create a working drive.
> If you accept the size limitation then you will get a working drive after
> the copy is done.
>
> Bork your HD and you can install the backup image and be away right from the
> reboot after the copy.
>
> You need to understand the tool(s). It is somewhat frustrating the the copy
> partition/disk needs to be larger(or the exact size) than the backup.
>

I will use Rescuezilla in future

>> I tried the Disks
>> app, and discovered it doesn't compress the image, and since the image
>> created is a bit over 500 Gb, I can only write it to a drive larger than
>> 500Gb. (sigh) I think the problem is that the NVME drive is actually a
>> fraction over 500Gb, since if I try to clone it to a 500Gb drive I get a
>> message that the receptor drive is too small. I was told I can reduce
>> the partition on the NVME drive to make a smaller image, but I'm afraid
>> to do that in case I lose data.
> Well, have about you do an image backup of the disk before you try reducing
> the NVMe partition? then if you lose data all you need to do is to restore
> the NVMe partition from the backup and try again.

yes, good idea

>
> Just keep in mind that a partion is not the whole disk in some cases.
>
>> I will try Rescuezilla, but if that
>> doesn't compress the image there's no gain from that. Does anyone have
>> any better suggestions for what I can do? thanks to all. :)
>>
> Clonezilla, and others use partclone as the engine.
>
> Regarding compression. Clonezilla does not copy the unused space on the
> orginal, it then compresses the copied parts. The issue is that clonezilla
> *demands* that it needs a space as large as the orginal to copy it back to.
>

Ok

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Linux Mint 22.3

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    Re: Making a hard drive image Axel <none@not.here> - 2026-05-03 20:21 +1000
      Re: Making a hard drive image Edmund <nomail@hotmail.com> - 2026-05-03 16:18 +0200
        Re: Making a hard drive image german newsgroups <usualsuspectrider@gmail.com> - 2026-05-04 10:07 +0200
        Re: Making a hard drive image Axel <none@not.here> - 2026-05-04 18:30 +1000
          Re: Making a hard drive image german newsgroups <usualsuspectrider@gmail.com> - 2026-05-04 17:51 +0200
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    Re: Making a hard drive image Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2026-05-03 10:32 -0700
      Re: Making a hard drive image Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2026-05-03 10:40 -0700
    Re: Making a hard drive image CtrlAltDel <Altie@BHam.com> - 2026-05-04 06:55 +0000
  Re: Making a hard drive image Axel <none@not.here> - 2026-05-04 09:59 +1000
    Re: Making a hard drive image Axel <none@not.here> - 2026-05-04 10:06 +1000
      Re: Making a hard drive image Axel <none@not.here> - 2026-05-04 11:37 +1000
        Re: Making a hard drive image Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-05-04 00:04 -0400
          Re: Making a hard drive image Axel <none@not.here> - 2026-05-04 18:26 +1000
          Re: Making a hard drive image Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-05-04 08:33 +0000
        Re: Making a hard drive image Axel <none@not.here> - 2026-05-04 18:06 +1000
          Re: Making a hard drive image Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-05-04 05:18 -0400
          Re: Making a hard drive image Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-05-05 18:52 -0400
            Re: Making a hard drive image Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-05-06 02:55 +0000
              Re: Making a hard drive image Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-05-06 01:37 -0400
                Re: Making a hard drive image Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-05-06 06:48 +0000
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      Re: Making a hard drive image Axel <none@not.here> - 2026-05-04 11:48 +1000
  Re: Making a hard drive image Gordon <Gordon@leaf.net.nz> - 2026-05-04 00:45 +0000
    Re: Making a hard drive image Axel <none@not.here> - 2026-05-04 11:51 +1000
    Re: Making a hard drive image Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-05-04 00:23 -0400

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