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How to take the back up of entire OS for my new laptop

Asked by Mahesh Reddy

Dear Support,

I have purahsed a new laptop(Dell Inspiron 15 3542 Series). It's came with default OS (ubuntu desktop).

Now i want to take a entire backup of ubuntu OS to DVD with all applications because if any files missing or os corrupt, I will reintall the OS with this DVD.

Please help on this same.

Thanks
Mahesh

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

If you boot to liveUSB / CD desktop, you can make an image of the drive, you can then use this to revert back in the live CD using the image as input.

Is this what you mean?

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David Pires (slickymaster) said : 		#2

I would advise you two methods:

1 - Clonezilla ( http://clonezilla.org/). It's a partition and disk imaging/cloning program. Two types of Clonezilla are available, Clonezilla live and Clonezilla SE (server edition). Clonezilla live is suitable for single machine backup and restore.

2 - Use Remastersys (http://www.remastersys.com/) manual method.
Check https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomization and https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomizationFromScratch.
It will give you an idea about a manual method to do the same. However those page are a bit too old and aren't updated for the current Ubuntu version.

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