How to Backup Ubuntu Mate System (whole drive & partitions) and restore easily?

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Duplicate your Ubuntu MATE installation

Introduction If your disk drive is acting a little funky, or if the thing it’s on has only a leg left to stand on, it is very easy to duplicate your install to another drive of equal or greater size without the use of utilities such as CloneZilla (which is still useful to have on-hand, but not entirely necessary for this). This doesn’t assume special circumstances. For automatically-mounted partitions defined in /etc/fstab, making all partitions not directly a part of your Ubuntu MATE installat…