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Thomas Tsai edited this page Jun 29, 2012 · 13 revisions

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Welcome to Partclone

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.

Supported File System

Partclone now supports ext2, ext3, ext4, hfs+, reiserfs, reiser4, vmfs3, vmfs5, jfs, ufs, xfs ,fat, ntfs and btrfs.We made some utilies:

 * partclone.ext2, clone.ext3, clone.extfs
 * partclone.ext4 (need e2fsprogs-1.41.3 or higher version)
 * partclone.reiserfs
 * partclone.reiser4
 * partclone.xfs
 * partclone.fat
 * partclone.hfsp
 * partclone.ntfs
 * partclone.ufs
 * partclone.vmfs
 * partclone.jfs
 * partclone.btrfs (based on btrfs-tools 0.19)

Usage

 * partclone.[extfs, reiserfs, fat, ntfs ...]
 * partclone.dd
 * partclone.chkimg
 * partclone.info
 * partclone.restore
 * partclone.ntfsreloc
 * partclone.VMFS_volume_member
 * more usage tips 

Team Information

 * Project Admins: Thomas_Tsai
 * Co-developer: Jazz Yao-Tsung Wang, Steven Shiau, Ceasar Sun, Yavor Nikolov
 * Operating System: Linux
 * License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
 * Related Project: Diskless Remote Boot Linux (a.k.a DRBL) and Clonezilla
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