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  • The important thing is to avoid to accidentally overwrite important data. If you keep the data away (or have a backup, that is not connected), you are safe. But if the backup image is the only one, you must have it connected, and then you must make sure that you will not overwrite the drive, where it is stored. You can use dd, but if you use a tool with a final checkpoint and some help output, you can double-check, that you will be restoring to the correct device before lauching the restore process. For example, if you boot from a live linux drive, you can use Disks alias gnome-disks. Commented Jul 28, 2018 at 10:11