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Descrīption: Partimage is a Linux utility which saves partitions having a supported filesystem
to an image file. Most Linux and Windows filesystems are supported. The
image file can be compressed with the gzip / bzip2 programs to save
disk space, and they can be splitted into multiple files to be copied
on CDs / DVDs, ... Partitions can also be saved across the network
since version 0.6.0 using the partimage network support, or using Samba
/ NFS. If you don't want to install Partimage, you can download and
burn SystemRescueCd.
It's a livecd that allows to use Partimage immediately even if your
computer has no operating system installed (useful to restore an
image), and it allows to save an image on a DVD on the fly.
Partimage will only copy data from the used portions of the partition.
For speed and efficiency, free blocks are not written to the image
file. This is unlike the 'dd' command, which also copies empty blocks.
Partimage also works for large, very full partitions. For example, a
full 1 GB partition can be compressed with gzip down to 400MB.
This is very useful to save partitions to an image in some cases:
- First you can restore your linux partition if there is a problem
(virus, file system errors, manipulation error). When you have a
problem, you just have to restore the partition, and after 10 minutes,
you have the original partition. You can write the image to a CD-R if
you don't want the image to use hard-disk space.
- This utility can be used to install many identical computers.
For example, if you buy 50 PCs, with the same hardware, and you want to
install the same linux systems on all 50 PCs, you will save a lot of
time. Indeed, you just have to install on the first PC and create an
image from it. For the 49 others, you can use the image file and
Partition Image's restore function.
Forums:
You should use Forums for any question.
| License
| GPL 2 (GNU General Public License)
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| Stable version:
| 0.6.6
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| Authors:
| Francois Dupoux and Franck Ladurelle
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| Contact:
| Contact us (the email address is protected by an anti-spam system)
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| Operating System
| Linux 2.2/2.4/2.6
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| Architectures
| Intel i386+ and PowerPC
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Several projects provide advanced boot/root disk and bootable CD-Rom
to use partition image from a rescue disk: We recommend using the
following project since it is maintained by members of the partimage
team:
SystemRescueCd Homepage