How to clone a drive?

goofylife · 06-21-2019, 06:07 PM

Hi,

I´ve got a fire-alarm presentation system that comes preinstalled in Ubuntu on a NUC-computer.
We´re gonna use this in-house for testing and training and therefore want to be able to "return to factory settings".
In other words we want to make a clone of the SSD as received from factory and be able to restore from it when we want to return the NUC to a fresh install.

Any suggestions on what to use to do this?

syg00 · 06-21-2019, 06:18 PM

The stock answer is clonezilla - should be in the Ubuntu repos.
If you want to get funky you could use timeshift to take a snapshot and simply boot from the "before" image without having to physically restore. I might use both, and use timeshift on a day-to-day basis with the clonezilla image as a fallback when things break.