You can't do an image backup of a Linux partition - client

Run the Gnome Disks utility from the Ubuntu programs menu. Select the 120GB Disk, and then choose “Create Disk image...”. Create a file name for the image. Create the Bootable... · Boot from the Installation Media · Backup to a Disk Image

The most straight forward way to make a raw image of your partitions is to use dd to dump the entire partition to a single file.

Tested on a partition with an Ubuntu installation: shrink partition with Gparted as much as possible. backup image of that partition with Disks.

I've been trying to set up Urbackup to backup a Ubuntu 22.04 client using an image backup to backup the client system partition.

This command creates the drive image and then passes it through gzip for compression. Bzip2 could be substituted instead of gzip for greater compression.

This article is dedicated to documenting methods of performing drive imaging (also called bare metal backups, or disk cloning).

Restore your Ubuntu Desktop and Server to previous state using Systemback utility. This utility is used to create backup of any DEB based ...

You need to download and burn Ubuntu live-cd/dvd/usb, boot your computer with it and restore partition from .img file with 'GNOME Disk Utility'.

You can create a recoverable backup of essentially your entire installation without having to make bootable media. You just open terminal and run a command.

Backup this partition. If you're using a filesystem that offers snapshots, use them. etckeeper . This stores your system level configs ...