What is the best and dependable way to clone Live USB

[Moderator BobC]

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I only use live USB maker to burn an ISO snapshot that I created of a running system. I try to only be running that program when I create the ISO to avoid having problems caused by things changing while it is being created.

I use the live USB to install from, not to run from, normally. I also made and ran from frugal installs, but I haven’t used that recently. They are more difficult to setup. I did use them to run from a year or two ago, but found it quicker and more reliable just running installed.

I suggest listening to moddit on his more recent experiences, and testing out your own scenario to make sure the way you plan to use it is usable, performance wise, and reliable.

[Moderator christophe]

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I recently needed to install an old version of antiX 17 which I had customized, but I no longer had the live-usb. I keep my frugals backed up (because that’s what I generally use), but a frugal (I discovered) won’t “install” properly (though it tries), but it won’t boot afterward.

So I made a fresh antiX 17.4.1 live usb with LUM. Then I copied-over the antiX folder on the live usb, replacing it with my frugal-install folder. I figured this would work because, that’s how I start out my frugals: copying that “antiX” folder from a live usb (or ISO file). This worked as a live system, and also worked to install.

So I figure, a nice alternate way to backup a favorite live usb setup could be:
1. keep the ISO file it’s made from.
2. simply copy the antiX folder from the live usb.
3. Then, if/when needed, just re-make the live-usb; then copy over the antiX folder from the archive, over the one on the usb.

Anyway, it worked for me. 🙂

confirmed antiX frugaler, since 2019

[Member olsztyn]

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BobC wrote:

So I made a fresh antiX 17.4.1 live usb with LUM. Then I copied-over the antiX folder on the live usb, replacing it with my frugal-install folder.

Just to make sure I got it right:
– You copied antiX folder from Frugal instance over antiX folder in the freshly cut Live USB produced from distribution ISO?
– Resulting Live antiX boots with all the customizations previously done in Frugal

Looks like this would be another workaround for backing up Live-USB antiX using Frugal install. The only my concern is whether machine specific limitations would not be ported into such created Live-USB, so it boots fine on one machine but not on the other as I reported in my other thread related to failing Nouveau driver in result.

Also I have done some more testing of using ISO Snapshot as backup of Live antiX. So far it seems to work for me as long as it is not an ISO Snapshot of encrypted Live USB.
So looks like there a few workarounds for backing up a Live USB but every one seems to be with some limitations. And none foolproof cloning a Live USB…
Thanks and Regards…

Live antiX Boot Options (Previously posted by Xecure):
https://antixlinuxfan.miraheze.org/wiki/Table_of_antiX_Boot_Parameters

[Member Peter Linu]

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This is 2 years old but I have an alternate solution.
Make your up-to-date iso with all of your personalisations, transfer it to a USB, put it on another computer than can handle Ventoy, copy/paste to Ventoy. Vento can hold many isos at the same time.

Live-USB = zzz-IceWM-antiX21-runit-64-base: static persistence
VirtualBox= zzz-IceWM-antiX21-runit-64-base

[Member iznit]

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Older posts on the forum say Ventoy is not recommended, it cripples some of the antiX live//remaster functionality. Has something changed? Have you tested creating and using persistence and also using live kernel replacer and remaster on a Ventoy managed device? What about live-usb-maker, can it successfully clone the system which was booted from a Ventoy managed device. If everything now works correctly, that would be good news.

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