Insert USB drive, image entire HD to USB so USB is bootable clone?

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Do you know of any tool that could enable this use case?Essentially you insert a sufficiently high capacity USB stick into your laptop, entirely clone the drive encryption & all as appropriate so that the USB stick becomes a full clone of your system, bootable from any other PC.

neckardt · Accepted Answer

Any disc mirroring software should work. I would probably try using dd and fdisk, but if you want a graphical option clonezilla[0] might be what you want.[0]: https://clonezilla.org/

mrsareen · Answer

Posted this thread specifically to help out for such usecase couple of days earlier - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24220628

lazylizard · Answer

dd?

Insert USB drive, image entire HD to USB so USB is bootable clone?

Do you know of any tool that could enable this use case?
Essentially you insert a sufficiently high capacity USB stick into your laptop, entirely clone the drive encryption & all as appropriate so that the USB stick becomes a full clone of your system, bootable from any other PC.

Any disc mirroring software should work. I would probably try using dd and fdisk, but if you want a graphical option clonezilla[0] might be what you want.
[0]: https://clonezilla.org/

Posted this thread specifically to help out for such usecase couple of days earlier - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24220628

dd?