How to Back Up Your Steam Deck With Clonezilla
Creating backups of your data is smart on any device, and the Steam Deck is no exception. Clonezilla is the perfect tool for backing up your Steam Deck; it’s a powerful partition, disk imaging, and disk cloning tool that’s simple to use. You can perform the entire procedure in less than an hour.
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In order to back up your Steam Deck with Clonezilla you’ll need some tools listed below.
First of all, you’ll need a USB flash drive with at least 1GB of storage space for the Clonezilla live environment since it takes about 500 megabytes when unzipped. Next, you’ll need an external hard drive or an SSD that matches or surpasses your Steam Deck’s internal SSD size.
We used an old Samsung 850 EVO 512GB SSD which we put inside an external SSD enclosure.
Next, you need a USB-C dock that includes at least three USB ports: one for the Clonezilla USB drive, one for the storage drive, and a third one reserved for a keyboard. Yep, a keyboard’s also needed since you’ll have to type a bit during the backup process.
If you use an SD card with your Steam Deck, remove it before you start the backup process so you don’t get confused when picking the storage drive to back up. Finally, make sure the Steam Deck’s battery is at or near 100 percent since the process can take a while.
The first thing you should do is download Clonezilla and copy the contents of the zipped archive to your USB drive.
Go to the Clonezilla website and click the “Download” button.
Once on the Download page either select the “Stable” or “Alternative Stable” download option.
After you arrive at the
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