I’m looking for a tool to make snapshots of the system with an ext4 system disk.

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DD or CloneZilla. Both from live sessions.

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Isn’t disk cloning quite different from snapshot? I’m asking for learning purposes. I’ve used Clonezilla for a decade now and it has developed into a superior beast. None of the commercial products can beat it.

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It is, but ext4 has no snapshot capability as far as I know.

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It’s worth the time to change to BTRFS. grub-btrfs is a life saver.

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dd is the tool you can use. But for a system disk you probably want to run it from a LiveOS

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back in time? it uses rsync

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Tools like rsync save only folders or files, but I want to save all system with Kernel, Drivers, …

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they are folders and files… no?

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LVM?

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Yes it’s on LVM but the system disk is ext4

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but the file system is ext4, will it still work?

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