Backing up a 2013 MBP before install

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Greetings…

I would like to put Ubuntu 24.04 on my old 2013 Macbook Pro (Intel), which has no more support from Apple. I have some files there that I’d like to keep. I backed it up with Time Machine to my NAS, but I never trust that thing. I was thinking that what I could do is boot install the Live version and dd the disk to the NAS, just as a “backup backup”.

For people who have backed up old Macs in the past, was this the best way to make sure all of your files were saved, what did you do? Is there anything you can think of that would be easier?

TIA…

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I would personally backup using rsync in MacOS or the live install ISO image, dd is a block for block which is good but is a super large file, if you have the storage then it wouldn’t be a problem, if not then rsync is a file for file backup and could be read by any OS, Windows, Linux, Mac, and everything in between

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