HOW-TO: Backup or Move WSL2 Distro

Move WSL to another drive

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• InstallLxRunOfflinetool.choco install lxrunoffline
• lxrunoffline listList all the installed distros on your system. I get output like this.

<code class="language-bash">Microsoft Windows <span class="token punctuation">[</span>Version <span class="token number">10.0</span>.19041.207<span class="token punctuation">]</span><span class="token punctuation">(</span>c<span class="token punctuation">)</span> <span class="token number">2020</span> Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.D:<span class="token punctuation">\</span>work<span class="token operator">></span>lxrunoffline listUbuntu-18.04docker-desktopdocker-desktop-dataD:<span class="token punctuation">\</span>work<span class="token operator">></span></code>

• lxrunoffline move -n Ubuntu-18.04 -d G:\wsl\. Move your distro to another drive. My distro name here isUbuntu-18.04. I am moving it toG driveandwslfolder 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.