Ask HN: Insert USB drive, image entire HD to USB so USB is bootable clone?

Posted by jfdi on Friday August 28, 2020 @11:38AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Do you know of any tool that could enable this use case?

Essentially you insert a sufficiently high capacity USB stick into your laptop, entirely clone the drive encryption & all as appropriate so that the USB stick becomes a full clone of your system, bootable from any other PC.

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Re:Ask HN: Insert USB drive, image entire HD to USB so USB i... by neckardt on Friday August 28, 2020 @11:52AM (#24306349)

Any disc mirroring software should work. I would probably try using dd and fdisk, but if you want a graphical option clonezilla[0] might be what you want.

[0]: https://clonezilla.org/

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Re:Ask HN: Insert USB drive, image entire HD to USB so USB i... by mrsareen on Saturday August 29, 2020 @03:23AM (#24314356)

Posted this thread specifically to help out for such usecase couple of days earlier - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24220628

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Re:Ask HN: Insert USB drive, image entire HD to USB so USB i... by lazylizard on Friday August 28, 2020 @11:51AM (#24306330)

dd?

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