How to use Active@ Disc Imager to back up Linux Ubuntu computer
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Yes — you can use an Active@ Disk Image USB pendrive on an Ubuntu machine, but with a few important points:
✔️ What does work
Active@ Disk Image includes a bootable WinPE-based rescue media.
If your USB stick was created with their Boot Disk Creator, you can usually:
- Plug it into your Ubuntu system
- Boot the computer from that USB stick
- Use the Active@ environment to make a full disk image of your Linux drive (it works at the block level, so it doesn’t care that the OS is Ubuntu)
This creates a sector-by-sector backup, which is perfectly valid for Linux systems.
⚠️ What to watch out for
- You must boot into the Active@ environment, not run it inside Linux (there’s no native Linux version of Active@ Disk Image).
- If your drive uses LUKS encryption, you will have to decrypt it first or back it up as raw sectors.
- If your machine uses UEFI + Secure Boot, you may need to temporarily disable Secure Boot so the USB can load the WinPE environment.
✔️ Alternatives that run natively in Ubuntu (just in case)
If you’d prefer something Linux-native, these work well:
- Clonezilla
- Redo Rescue
dd(raw clone)- Timeshift (system snapshots — not a full image)
fsarchiverfor filesystem-level backups
Summary
Yes: You can use the Active@ Disk Image USB boot drive to back up an Ubuntu system, because the backup is done outside the OS and works at the disk-image level.