hi guys!! ( linux users don’t jump on me pls i only use windows for some apps) so i was noticing that my windows os is full with microsoft garbage that consumes my ram and network speed for nothing!! like shitty edge!! and looked for a solution and i found debloating. but i need to make a backup first in case something goes wrong . local disk is : 237gb - used 133gb = 103gb free i have a 64gb usb i want to make a high compressed backup for everything including my windows 11 is it possible with that 64gb usb? and what software to use pls? pls don’t tell using a cloud !! 😓i have a slow internet cuz i live in a rural area. thanks in advance to anyone!
Your best bet is to pickup a new flash drive. Luckily, a quality 256 gb flash drive is like $25 now.
7zip also allows for higher compression levels than the built in Windows tool. Would check that out as well.
has insanely good deduplication and compression. May even fit everything on the 64gb usb.
But it does archives on a file basis, not partitions, so not sure what kind of hackerman admin priviledges you’d need to restore your windows in case you want to roll back. I’ve never used windows for this level of fucking with the os - but I’ve heard you can’t modify sys32 etc. even when you use the admin account.
you could make 4 Google accounts and compress the data into 4 encrypted files, and upload them each to their Google account (they have 25gb max)
BorgBackup creates compressed and de-duplicated backups, splitting data into chunks then only keeping unique chunks + a list of files those chunks belong too.
I’ve currently got around 470gb being backed up; compression brings that down to 320gb, then after de-duplication that’s down closer to 70gb. (there’s a lot of media metadata in there, results will vary)
17 backups going back 6 months: 8.10 TB original > 5.62 TB compressed > 326.55 GB final backup data stored on disk
/edit this thread is a week old… It showed up at the top of my ‘new’ feed…? Odd.
ai dont think youll fit 103gb in a 64gb usb…
but a 128gb/256gb usb doesnt cost much
even tho i would be better to buy a sata ssd and a sata->usb cable
