[Gllug] Bootable USB backup like OS X dmg?

Sun Jun 5 10:06:04 UTC 2011

On 24 May 2011 16:38, gvim <gvimrc at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is not what I'm looking for. I want to make an externally bootable disk
> image of an installed Linux system, not a generic USB-bootable Linux distro.
> Something like SuperDuper! on Mac OS X.
>

Boot from a generic USB Linux distro.
Ensure the internal HD is not mounted.
Use dd to copy the entire internal HD to the external blank usb storage device.

The external HD will then be bootable, just do not boot it on the same
machine you did the image from because it might have the same UUIDs.
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