Who has practice experience with Foxclone, Rescuezilla or Clonezilla?

[Bas G. Roufs]

Hello, Ian and others.

Thanks for your reply.

Op ma 1 jul 2024 om 22:57 schreef Ian Bruntlett <ian.bruntlett at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 1 Jul 2024 at 21:22, Bas G. Roufs <basroufs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> At present I am working with a fresh install of Kubuntu 24.04 LTS at a
>> Lenovo Thinkpad X230, with the following specs at present:
>>
>> SSD of a bit less then 233 GiB, 250GB, Samsung EVO;
>>
>> 4 GB RAM.
>>
>> Right now, I am using about 90 GiB, a bit less then 97 GB: system and
>> user files.
>>
>> I have much more user data at two external hard disks - from a laptop
>> that has been stolen at the 27th of January 2024.
>>
>> Some weeks ago, I made a fresh, manual install of Kubuntu 24.04 LTS after
>> formatting the 250 GB SSD with a GPT partition table and ext4 via GPARTED
>> from  a Ventoy stick.
>>
>> I want to add an SSD of 1 TB and keep the old smaller SSD  - as an extra
>> partition for Timeshift system backups. I already found out that both the
>> old SSD and the new one can be inserted into the Thinkpad X230. By the way
>> - for user file backups I use now Backintime.
>>
>> The 4 GB RAM consists of 2 memory banks of 2 GB each.
>> I wanna replace them with an upgrade that fits in the X230: 2 memory
>> banks of 8 GB each - DDR 3, 1600 MhZ, together 16 GB RAM.
>>
>
> OK. I recently bought 2 x 8GiB memory sticks to upgrade my Lenovo ThinkPad
> x230i.
> I researched things heavily before I bought the RAM. I researched heavily
> into what to do after the RAM was inserted (with a friend watching to make
> sure I didn't do anything daft). The shopkeeper can do the upgrade for you.
>

Yes - the shopkeeper can do the hardware upgrade - the 2 8 GB, 1600 MhZ and
DDR3 memory banks as well as the extra SSD.


>
> However, one thing I made sure of was this: I made sure that after we
> installed the RAM, the first thing I ran (from a VENTOY stick) was
> memtest96+ v7 to make sure that the memory was working OK. My reasoning was
> that I didn't want bad RAM to lead to random crashes and potential data
> loss.
>

Sounds very reasonable. Where to find the package you aim at?  The latest
stable version of  «System Rescue» is one of the ISO's I have at a Ventoy
stick. Go to this page:
https://www.system-rescue.org/System-tools/, then scroll to this:
«Hardware testing». The first line under this heading says this:
«(...)
 You can run Memtest86+ from the boot menu, both in BIOS/Legacy and UEFI
mode.
(...)»
Is this what you refer to?

Finally, I have a question about Foxclone, the software I want to use to
get a compressed clone image iso of my whole SSD to the same 128 GB Ventoy
stick - Kubuntu 24.04 LTS plus some user data, 97 GB. From that USB stick,
I am using now about 10%. A compressed image will be about 30% less - so,
about 67.9 GB out of 97 GB.  So far, so good. However, the devil is in the
detail.... Look at this page:
https://foxclone.org/downloads.html
This page points at two versions of Foxclone:
The standard version is based on ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) has a 5.4 kernel and
is suitable for all PCs manufactured before 2019.
The focal version, based on ubuntu 20.04, has a 5.15 kernel and is intended
for newer PCs.

My laptop is a Lenovo Thinkpad X230, produced in 2012, as far as I can see.
>From that point of view, a choice for the standard version would be the
most logical choice.
On the other hand, the OLD 250 GB SSD I am using now, is from 2019. And the
new 1 TB SSD the PC Repair shop shopkeeper is going to add to my laptop, is
probably from this year or 2023. New, anyway. The same applies for the 2 8
GB DD3 1600 MHz memory. That's the reason, I am wondering which of the two
versions I can use best in my situation.

Thanks.

Yours.

Bas.

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>
>
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