* Looks up how to clone drives *
"It's really easy! just follow these steps..."
120 steps.
Fresh install it is.
Discussion
Clonezilla is pretty easy to use.
Still a million steps making bootable usbs and stuff. I don’t have much to reinstall on a fresh os
Rescuezilla is even simpler and only requires Balena for flashing it to a USB drive. It's like 3 steps
Maybe I’ll try that
Probably still requires an adapter for the 2nd drive? I have an old board and I’m not sure if it has more than 1 m2 slot. Would prefer not to buy any adapters to plug the 2nd drive
You can use an external HDD for the image target if you have one lying around.
Hmm, I might!
Would be good to know if the new drive is larger to save you some time, because a fresh install may indeed be less complicated. I'm not sure Clonezilla or Rescuezilla have a simple way of expanding a cloned drive onto a larger disk. It likely will just leave the extra space as unusable by the OS. Sorry, should have asked to begin with.
Nvm just realized my board has 2 m2 slots.
Good. It saves one step and about a third of the time. You'd want to be using it on the same machine though. I dont know how Macs work, but cloning one drive and using it on a different machine will usually cause problems, if it works at all. If you plan to use the drive on a new machine then you probably should do a fresh install. New drive on the same machine is good unless you're using a larger drive. That does get more complicated.
I’m not even gonna clone now. I’ll just move file save locations to larger drive and be done 😂
Thanks, wasn't aware of this one, have been using clonezilla for years and never thought to investigate something newer.
It's a matter of preference and knowledge. Rescuezilla has a more modern GUI that is easier to understand for people who aren't used to something like Clonezilla. Clonezilla is just fine though.
Well, except for some of the confusing options that aren't as clear to less experienced users. That's where Rescuezilla is better in my opinion.
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These things are really easy to use.
I have two different ones now and they work fantastic.
It's really easy with Rescuezilla. I use it to backup my entire drive before major updates, etc.
That’s me every. Single. Time. At some point you end up making installing your OS a perfected art form
Accurate