02-04-2015, 03:42 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-04-2015, 04:20 PM by greenisland.)
Well not to have a conversation with myself, but I added the ppa (the daily version) installed systemback, created a live system backup, installed the 8.2 gb live file to a usb stick, put it in another computer, and it booted right up with what looks like a duplicate of my system.
I have a lot more playing and investigating to do, but thought I would post this initial report in case anyone else is looking for something like this.
Notes:
- to install the liveimage from the usb, you boot from the usb, then go into systemback from the desktop menu, and choose install from there. Systemback has its own installer that is maybe not user-friendly but works.
- it installed grub but did not find my existing windows system. I already had grub-customizer installed on the system, so I started that and it allowed me to save a new grub with all the operating systems it found.
- systemback has exactly what I was looking for - a menu-driven system for picking what files and directories to exclude from the live image process.
I have a lot more playing and investigating to do, but thought I would post this initial report in case anyone else is looking for something like this.
Notes:
- to install the liveimage from the usb, you boot from the usb, then go into systemback from the desktop menu, and choose install from there. Systemback has its own installer that is maybe not user-friendly but works.
- it installed grub but did not find my existing windows system. I already had grub-customizer installed on the system, so I started that and it allowed me to save a new grub with all the operating systems it found.
- systemback has exactly what I was looking for - a menu-driven system for picking what files and directories to exclude from the live image process.