HOW-TO: Backup or Move WSL2 Distro

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Move WSL to another drive

  • Install LxRunOffline tool. choco install lxrunoffline

( lxrunoffline list List all the installed distros on your system. I get output like this.

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19041.207] (c) 2020 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. D:\work>lxrunoffline list Ubuntu-18.04 docker-desktop docker-desktop-data D:\work>

  • lxrunoffline move -n Ubuntu-18.04 -d G:\wsl\ . Move your distro to another drive. My distro name here is Ubuntu-18.04. I am moving it to G drive and wsl folder inside it. It would take some time to finish moving.

You can use the same move command to move your distro from default location to a different location inside C Drive.

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