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David_UK
December 25th, 2010, 12:00 PM
I'm really chuffed with the first bootable USB stick I created so easily with 10.04 desktop. I've added applications that I want, codecs etc and got the configuration just how I like it.

Now I'd like to back up the entire stick, as I use it a lot and the stick will die eventually.

I've not used Clonezilla, but I wondered if that would make a copy?

It's a 4G stick, with all the remaining space allocated to the casper persistance file.

Thanks

C.S.Cameron
December 25th, 2010, 12:33 PM
Thumb drives are real easy to clone using dd.
Boot the Live CD, plug in the thumb drives and in terminal:


dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc

Before proceeding confirm that sdb is the drive you want to clone and sdc is the target.

David_UK
December 25th, 2010, 01:03 PM
Thumb drives are real easy to clone using dd.
Great! Thanks. It looks as though I would be able to back it up as an image file on a DVD too.