Is it possible to make an ISO of a working computer?

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So I’d like to make an ISO Image of my current system. I have a dual boot system; Windows 10 (What I play Diablo4 and Steam won’t install on my Linux version :winking_face_with_tongue:) & Debian.
My Windows drives look like this:

Disk model: Samsung SSD 970 EVO plus 1TB            
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 46B6087B-D3A1-4C66-A8FA-503E28A9A4C3

Device              Start        End    Sectors   Size Type
/dev/nvme1n1p1       2048     206847     204800   100M EFI System
/dev/nvme1n1p2     206848     239615      32768    16M Microsoft reserved
/dev/nvme1n1p3     239616 1952401821 1952162206 930.9G Microsoft basic data
/dev/nvme1n1p4 1952403456 1953521663    1118208   546M Windows recovery environment


Disk /dev/sda: 232.89 GiB, 250059350016 bytes, 488397168 sectors
Disk model: WDC WD2500AAJS-0
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt

And Debian’s drives look like this:

Disk model: Samsung SSD 960 EVO 500GB               
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 8910A898-836D-4261-BCDB-75B7F8BFB452

Device             Start       End   Sectors   Size Type
/dev/nvme0n1p1      2048 195311615 195309568  93.1G Linux filesystem
/dev/nvme0n1p2 195311616 390623231 195311616  93.1G Linux filesystem
/dev/nvme0n1p3 390623232 781248511 390625280 186.3G Linux swap
/dev/nvme0n1p4 781248512 976771071 195522560  93.2G Linux filesystem


Disk /dev/sdb: 2.73 TiB, 3000592982016 bytes, 5860533168 sectors
Disk model: WDC WD30EZAZ-22S
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Device          Start        End    Sectors  Size Type
/dev/sdb1        2048 2929686527 2929684480  1.4T Linux filesystem
/dev/sdb2  2929686528 5860532223 2930845696  1.4T Linux filesystem

I want to make ISOs of both of them so I can do re-installs if disaster strikes. I want to store the ISOs on a External Hard drive. I thought of using the DD command but I’m afraid it will wipe the entire drive I want to save the ISO Images on.
So any suggestions are welcome.

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Hi @tmick ,

You mean something like this ? :

Many File systems are supported: (1) ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, reiser4, xfs, jfs, btrfs (testing), f2fs and nilfs2 of GNU/Linux, (2) FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, exFAT and NTFS of MS Windows, (3) HFS+ and APFS of Mac OS, (4) UFS of FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD, (5) minix of Minix, and (6) VMFS3 and VMFS5 of VMWare ESX. Therefore you can clone GNU/Linux, MS windows, Intel-based Mac OS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Minix, VMWare ESX and Chrome OS/Chromium OS, no matter it’s 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x86-64) OS. For these file systems, only used blocks in partition are saved and restored by Partclone. For unsupported file system, sector-to-sector copy is done by dd in Clonezilla.

EDIT - or this:

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I looked at Rescuezilla and when I searched the Debian Repos I found this Weresync but It only seems to do one partition so that’s not useful to me :cry:
I’ll read more on the Rescuezilla thing.
Thanks for the links. :partying_face:

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