New features
Backup utility
We added a utility to make a backup of the Persistent Storage to another Tails USB stick.
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This utility automates the process described until now in our documentation on making a backup of your Persistent Storage, which used the command line.
Thanks a lot to David A. Wheeler for sending us the initial code!
It’s pretty basic and we still want to do something better in #7049, but we didn’t want to wait more because we know that backups are a big issue for our users.
External Hard Disk
We added a new entry called Tails (External Hard Disk) to the GRUB boot loader.
![](https://privacynow.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/tails2.png)
You can use it to start Tails from an external hard disk or one of the few USB sticks that used to return the following error when starting Tails:
Unable to find a medium containing a live file system