[SOLVED] How to back-up a dual-boot system in a fast way?

[MdAyq0l]

The primary and only drive of my home laptop Dell Precision M6700 has an MBR partitioning scheme and four partitions:

1. NTFS: Windows 10 system, programs, and admin directory, 128 GB
2. NTFS: Windows 10 normal users' data (migrated from C:\Users), 128 GB
3. Ext4: Debian 10 root / except /home, 128 GB
4. Ext4: Debian 10 /home, 128 GB

The system is dual-boot, the boot manager is grub.
How do I back up the laptop regularly in a single-push-button way? That is, I wish to push a button in the evening from whichever operating system I was working last and then go to sleep; after backing up the laptop should turn itself off or enter an energy-saving mode of some kind. The backed up data should not leave the house (so, using a cloud service is out of scope).
I don't have a second reliable computer at my disposal to support the backup; I can afford cheap USB thumb drives, a cheap external SSD drive, using DVDs or similar external devices. The laptop manual is here.

 

[USAFRet]

I'm not aware of any one size fits all that works from either Debian or Windows, but from a running or sleeping Windows instance, I'm fairly confident Macrium Reflect will do most of what you need.
Full drive backup, all partitions, to whatever external thing of sufficient size.

Don't even have to push a button, that will do it on whatever schedule you set up.

The Free version is...free.
Try it and see if it meets your needs.

 

[popatim]

I second Reflect Free.

 

[CountMike]

Me 3, using MR I'm doing exactly that except my My Linux is on separate SSD from windows but I always make backup of both at same time as I have setup some interactions between Mint and W10 so they have to go together.

 

[MdAyq0l]

Me 3, using MR I'm doing exactly that

Good to know. So, is it possible in Mint to initiate a backup with MR at the end of the day and go to bed and be sure that the laptop would turn itself off?

 

[USAFRet]

Good to know. So, is it possible in Mint to initial a backup with MR at the end of the day and go to bed and be sure that the laptop would turn itself off?

Macrium is a Windows tool, not LinuxMint.

It will run from WIndows and then shut off, it will wake up a sleeping Windows and then shut off.
There is no Linux client (that I am aware of).

 

[USAFRet]

There a lot of links talking about Macrium having no issues imaging/cloning a Linux partition.

https://www.tenforums.com/backup-restore/125742-macrium-linux-disks-cloning.html

Can Macrium Reflect Disk Imaging Recover a Linux Partition?

forum.macrium.com

https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?f=104&t=55960


But nothing regarding an actual Linux client.

 

[CountMike]

No, no Linux client but no problem with backing up any format. There are many options to use it in windows, you can make boot entry for booting straight to rescue boot menu and also to use just from rescue media like bootable USB or DVD. Can even uninstall it from windows if you don't want automatic backup, full or incremental.