I'm using Arch Linux and planning to make some significant changes to my partitions. I want to create a safe backup of my SWAP, EFI, and ext4 partitions, just in case anything goes wrong during this process. What are the best methods to achieve a thorough backup?
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It's great you're planning ahead! For your backups, consider using Timeshift to capture your operating system state and installed packages. You can use Back In Time for everything in your /home directory. For the partitions themselves, you can boot from a live USB with GParted and just copy the partitions directly to it. That way, you can easily restore them if needed.
So I can make a GParted USB and copy the partition to it? What do I do if I need to restore?