Saving all the data from a notebook - which command helps here?

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good morning hello dear community, :slightly_smiling_face:

well - i am workin on the setup of a notebook

therefore i need to copy all the data.

how to proceed: how to copy (all!) the data from one notebook to a external drive
how to copy the data from one notebook to a external drive -

note: i want to move the whole data - i want to do a complete frehs install - therefore i need to save all /(!) the data:
how to achive that - how to get really each byte!?
a. with the bookmarks of the browser
b. the hidden data.
c.

are there some certain commands that ensure that i really get all the stuff!?

look forward to hear from you

greetings :grinning_face:

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If youā€™re saving from Linux, Iā€™d look at rsync. If you are saving from Windows or mac, Iā€™m afraid I donā€™t know. Rsync by example

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good day MyNameisRichard

thank you so much. I will have a closer look at this!!
BTW; i want to do this from a Ubuntu - (since i want to install EOS on it) b

Sure thing! :smiley:

update: If I want to make a backup of my data - not the OS (!!!) (that is : the OS is not included - but all the rest: so not just my home directory), how do I go about this?

so i do not want to this:

dd if=/dev/sda of=/path/to/external/hardisk/mybackupfile

This command would makes a backup of the whole hard-disk, not just the OS, and itā€™ll also do all the empty bytes,

well i do not want to save the OS.

No i only want to save the data - /without the OS:

btw: well: To restore the backup, we couluse:

dd if=/path/to/external/harddisk/mybackupfile of=/dev/sda

but which command gives (helps me with) the backup of all the data!! ?

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Here. Change the paths accordingly. If you prefer a GUI way, there is grsync

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If you are comfortable on commandline I would suggest tar (-> man tar), should be available in ubuntu, in eos, too.
It has an option to compress, you may give some input-dirā€™s & get one big blob, you may reverse expand this anywhere full or partial.
Your dd you should consume with maximum care! I think, itā€™s no good ideaā€¦

Sorry, its german only, but maybe you get it translated: link

Edit2: I never would destroy a running system without having another.
You canā€™t install onto a 2nd partition or disc?

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hello and good evening dear friends - good day dear Wolfin gello dear @MyNameIsRichard

first of all - many many thanks for the reply I am glad to hear from you.

By the way: how do you find this idea: what if i just create a new folder in my /home called ā€˜Alltogtherā€™ (sans quotes). Copy / paste all the pre-existing folders into ā€œAlltogehterā€.

well that said . i could then finally copy the so caled " Alltogether-folder" into my backup location.

what do you say - i think that this solution is very interesting.

greetings :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: