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Question : How to do a complete backup and restore of Distrod

Open Vrashabh-Sontakke opened this issue 2 years ago • 3 comments

Are the "wsl --export" and "wsl --import" commands sufficient.

Vrashabh-Sontakke avatar Nov 24 '22 23:11 Vrashabh-Sontakke

just copy ext4.vhdx.

Perform the following steps when you need to restore:

  1. Install a fresh distro normally using wsl-distrod
  2. Execute wsl --shutdown
  3. Replace the ext4.vhdx of the newly installed distro with the backed up ext4.vhdx

I-Want-ToBelieve avatar Dec 08 '22 13:12 I-Want-ToBelieve

just copy ext4.vhdx.

Perform the following steps when you need to restore:

  1. Install a fresh distro normally using wsl-distrod
  2. Execute wsl --shutdown
  3. Replace the ext4.vhdx of the newly installed distro with the backed up ext4.vhdx

Where is this ext4.vhdx located when installed using distrod.

Vrashabh-Sontakke avatar Dec 08 '22 13:12 Vrashabh-Sontakke

@Vrashabh-Sontakke

c:/users/xxx/AppData/Local/Distrod

I-Want-ToBelieve avatar Dec 09 '22 04:12 I-Want-ToBelieve