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Answer by Bob for How to backup (WSL) Linux Subsystem for Windows 10, before...

Windows 10 v1903 includes a built-in WSL export/import command. Specifically, wsl --export, which produces a tar and wsl --import, which imports a previously exported tar. You can then move this file...

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Answer by Rajesh Thampi for How to backup (WSL) Linux Subsystem for Windows...

While Jaime's answer is perfect, somehow the /tmp folder is not recreated when launcher.exe is used for installing the tar ball (I am specifically talking about moving the WSL installation from one...

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Answer by Jaime for How to backup (WSL) Linux Subsystem for Windows 10,...

To backup and restore a complete WSL linux distribution, you may try to (1) create a .tar.gz with your filesystem and (2) restore the copy using some installer tools available in the Internet:...

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Answer by Richard Turner for How to backup (WSL) Linux Subsystem for Windows...

How to backup? Any number of ways, but one common practice is to use tar to create an archive of the files you want to backup (in order to re-install everything when you recreate your environment)....

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How to backup (WSL) Linux Subsystem for Windows 10, before system reset or...

My problem is that I have to reset or reinstall windows because of some problems but I spent a lot of time to configure WSL for development and don't want to lose it. Is there any way of backing up...

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