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Does anyone have a recent resource on creating a recovery partition or a recovery DVD? I have Ubuntu 16.04 with xfce4 installed and running just fine.

Three choices:

1) A bootable recovery partition, and then clone the entire drive (empty primary partition, swap, and recovery partition) to DVD as a second recovery medium (preferred).

2) Clone to self booting, self installing DVD (second choice).

3) Customer preseeding an Ubuntu Desktop install DVD (also acceptable but it is quite intricate to get right).

A base install (operating and uncompressed) is taking up 7 gb, so compresssion is a consideration if the entire recovery is to fit on a single DVD.

Mondo sounded like a possibility, but I can't get it to install and run on Ubuntu 16.04. Development within mondo has not progressed on mindi-busybox, and mindi-busybox is a required dependency.

Charles Chambers
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I like clonezilla.
Clonezilla is a backup/clone utility similar to Norton Ghost. It can be downloaded from http://clonezilla.org

You would have a few options using clonezilla.

1) clone the drive to an external that is the same size or larger.

2) clone partitions to an external drive that has room for the partitions.

3) make an image of the drive or partitions that can be stored in the clonezilla partition (if it is large enough), a designated recovery partition, or burned to DVD.
Note: burning to DVD requires that you have space to store the image, and a DVD burning program to make a data disk.

Clonezilla itself is a LiveMedia image, so it can be burnt to CD/DVD, USB stick, or extracted to a HDD partition.

I personally extracted it to a partition on my HDD, and added entries from it's grub.config file to my grub so I can launch it from my normal grub menu.

ravery
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