Best way to create a disk image for a Veracrypt-encrypted system disk

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Best way to create a disk image for a Veracrypt-encrypted system disk

Forum: Open Discussion

Creator: Kit Johnson

Created: 2020-01-29

Updated: 2020-02-26

Kit Johnson - 2020-01-29

I finally got a new laptop (Yay!) and have spent many hours setting it up. I'd like to create a system image so that I can always go back to this state if needed.

I used Veracrypt to encrypt the system partition. Before Windows starts loading I need to type a password.

I imagine that I can do a Clonezilla complete disk image as usual, but I thought I would check first if there was anything special (such as an option) I should keep in mind given that it's encrypted.

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Steven Shiau - 2020-02-23

AFAIK, Veracrypt is the encryption on top of the file system, therefore you can just use Clonezilla live to save it as normal way:
https://clonezilla.org/show-live-doc-content.php?topic=clonezilla-live/doc/01_Save_disk_image
For more use cases, please check
https://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live-doc.php

Steven

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- Kit Johnson - 2020-02-26
  
  Thanks very much for your help, @steven_shiau.
  
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