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[Mike-BTU]

That means you have to have a same size drive which isn't the case for everyone. I have a 4T nvme drive and I don't clone it because that would mean I would another same size drive or bigger to clone it and doing that on a weekly bases would take a lot of time for big size drives.

Not necessarily. The files are compressed by default in Foxclone

 

[f33dm3bits]

Not necessarily. The files are compressed by default in Foxclone

If I'm going to clone a drive I'm not trusting something based on compression whether the drive will be big enough or not. You'll just see that when I rely on that it will say the drive is too small. Not sure what you mean by files are compress but cloning usually mean cloning the entire disk or partition, not sure what you mean with how files are compressed. I might see if I can find an affordable 4T drive to try cloning again, I haven't used any clone tools in years.

 

[Mike-BTU]

If I'm going to clone a drive I'm not trusting something based on compression whether the drive will be big enough or not. You'll just see that when I rely on that it will say the drive is too small. Not sure what you mean by files are compress but cloning usually mean cloning the entire disk or partition, not sure what you mean with how files are compressed. I might see if I can find an affordable 4T drive to try cloning again, I haven't used any clone tools in years.

Well, I see that you haven't tried it (or read the instructions).

Trust me, I've saved and restored drives and partitions with Foxclone many, many times over the years.

 

[f33dm3bits]

Well, I see that you haven't tried it (or read the instructions).

Trust me, I've saved and restored drives many, many times over the years.

I was searching for documentation for a source/dest disk formation ration but haven't found one yet, do you know where to find that if you could share that link? The last cloning tool I ever used was clonezilla and that was a long time ago, I'll have a look at Foxclone because it looks like an interesting tool.

 

[Mike-BTU]

I was searching for documentation for a source/dest disk formation ration but haven't found one yet, do you know where to find that if you could share that link? The last cloning tool I ever used was clonezilla and that was a long time ago, I'll have a look at Foxclone because it looks like an interesting tool.

Sure! Visit https://foxclone.org/ and click the User Guide link near the top.

That will download foxclone54.pdf.

EDIT
There's so little info on each page of the PDF, you might as well start from P. 1.

 

[Trml]

Excellent you got it working, congratulations @Anluz. Enjoy tinkering your Arch, the best distro to tinker with.

Three pitfalls to watch from my experience:

1. On package upgrades always watch for initramfs-generation successfulin pacman output and enable the initramfs-fallback image, so you can always use it as backup boot option.
2. Personally i have IgnorePkg=grub in /etc/pacman.conf. Not because I want to skip upgrades, but to pay extra attention when grub-install is triggered.
3. Get into the habit of handling *.pacnew files. The package manager will leave these when you have customised configuration files. Some *.pacnew you will learn to ignore, others are important.

With these you (hopefully) never need a system snapshot and the box will rock'n'roll (my current desktop background) for many years.

 

[f33dm3bits]

Three pitfalls to watch from my experience:

1. Personally i have IgnorePkg=grub in /etc/pacman.conf. Not because I want to skip upgrades, but to pay extra attention when grub-install is triggered.
2. Get into the habit of handling *.pacnew files. The package manager will leave these when you have customised configuration files. Some *.pacnew you will learn to ignore, others are important.

Also install the "downgrade" from the AUR command it can be useful if you need to downgrade a package. I have a look at "pacdiff" also it helps with that, if I am not mistaken it's in "pacman-contrib". Also you may want to refresh your mirrors every now and then with reflector.

 

[f33dm3bits]

Sure! Visit https://foxclone.org/ and click the User Guide link near the top.

I had looked there but not through the whole document yet since it was late here, I was hoping you would know that detail from the top of your head or where it was mentioned there.

Edit: I found something

Page 24 has the most useful information about cloning and page 32 about compression where it mentions it does 30% compression or more and compression achieves 2/3 reduction in the image file size.