HOW-TO: Backup or Move WSL2 Distro

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Move WSL to another drive

  • Install LxRunOffline via Choco
1 choco install lxrunoffline
  • lxrunoffline list List all the installed distros on your system. I get output like this.
1 Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19041.207]
2 (c) 2020 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
3 D:\work>lxrunoffline list
4 Ubuntu-18.04
5 docker-desktop
6 docker-desktop-data
7 D:\work>

1 lxrunoffline move -n Ubuntu-18.04 -d G:\wsl\ .
  • Move your distro to another drive. My distro name here is Ubuntu. I am moving it to M: drive and /Shared/WSL2 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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