Cloning Qubes onto a USB flash drive.

[Catacombs]

Anyone have any experience with Cloning a working Qubes onto a 32 GB 3.1 flash drive to later boot off of?

What is a useful piece of software to do the clone, that I can run as off another USB key as a live version of Linux.

Could the cloned version of Qubes on the USB Flash drive be used on another hardware to actually run Qubes?

Thanks for advice.

[Steve Coleman]

On 4/5/20, Catacombs <ggg...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Could the cloned version of Qubes on the USB Flash drive be used on another
> hardware to actually run Qubes?

Why not simply boot from The Qubes install media and install Qubes
onto the USB drive, and then restore your choice of AppVM's from an
existing backup of your main system? This will have the added benefit
of actually testing your 'disaster recovery plan' without having to
change or modify your main installation. You will then be more
confident in your own ability to recover from an actual disaster and
will have a way to boot your computer to correct any damage done
during future software upgrades.

[Catacombs]

I started to do that. Good idea. But I recalled. Long ago. That Apple support, when I had it, told me to never copy USB to USB. I guess because it overheats the USB innards.

Maybe you meant start install iso from inside an os in laptop. Like inside an App VM. And install from there. Hmm. Should work faster.

I will try different Linux distros to see if they have a Clone software. I vaguely recall that Mint Linux had an easy to use Clone Disk program 19 months ago. Maybe I should study up on dd command.

I just thought someone might have recently done the Clone. Else I am just trying things. I only have so much time for Qubes.

[rickey]

Clonezilla is working very well with all OSes' cloning (even with multi- boot). I never test it with Qubes OS though.