Hi, There are many different methods to backup or clone your system. Keep in mind what you found in other forum is dated May 17, 2005 . Personally I use Clonezilla to clone my root partition, a open source project developed in Taiwan.

Edited by tristar at 2016-5-22 23:10

I'm using cp tool, backup by hand, like this:

- use 'sudo fdisk -l' to see your devices (disks)
- i'm using this method for system ssd disk only

backup:

1) boot with livecd
2) "sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt" (here i have disk with free space)
3) "cd /mnt"
4) "sudo cp /dev/sda deepin.img" (here i copy SSD disk 120GB to image)

restore:

1) boot with livecd (any live cd will do)
2) "sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt" (here i have disk with free space and backup images)
3) "cd /mnt"
4) "sudo cp deepin.img /dev/sda" (copy image to SSD disk)

That's it.