Partclone is a project similar to the well-known backup utility "Partition Image" a.k.a partimage. Partclone provides utilities to back up and restore used-blocks of a partition and it is designed for higher compatibility of the file system by using existing library, e.g. e2fslibs is used to read and write the ext2 partition.
Partclone now supports ext2, ext3, ext4, hfs+, reiserfs, reiser4, btrfs, vmfs3, vmfs5, xfs, jfs, ufs, ntfs, fat(12/16/32), exfat...
We made some utilities:
- partclone.ext2, partclone.ext3, partclone.ext4
- partclone.extfs
- partclone.reiserfs
- partclone.reiser4
- partclone.xfs
- partclone.exfat
- partclone.fat (fat 12, fat 16, fat 32)
- partclone.ntfs
- partclone.hfsp
- partclone.vmfs(v3 and v5)
- partclone.ufs
- partclone.jfs
- partclone.btrfs
- partclone.minix
- partclone.f2fs
- partclone.nilfs
- partclone.info
- partclone.restore
- partclone.chkimg
- partclone.dd ...
Basic Usage:
-
clone partition to image
partclone.ext4 -d -c -s /dev/sda1 -o sda1.img -
restore image to partition
partclone.ext4 -d -r -s sda1.img -o /dev/sda1 -
partiiton to partition clone
partclone.ext4 -d -b -s /dev/sda1 -o /dev/sdb1 -
display image information
partclone.info -s sda1.img -
check image
partclone.chkimg -s sda1.img
Limitations:
- Filesystem being backedup must be unmounted and inaccessible to other programs.
For more info about partclone, check our website http://partclone.org or github-wiki.