Partimage

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name = Partimage



caption = Partimage 0.6.7 on Ubuntu
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author = Francois Dupoux and Franck Ladurelle
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latest release version = 0.6.7
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operating system = Linux, Cross-platform (Live CD)
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license = open source
website = [http://www.partimage.org/ www.partimage.org]

Partimage is a disk cloning utility for Linux/UNIX environments. Partimage can save partitions in many formats to a disk image. Utilities such as Partimage are useful in a number of situations which are commonly encountered by network administrators as well as computer users who maintain their own systems.

Common Uses

Some common uses for Partimage are as follows. [ [http://www.debianadmin.com/backup-and-restore-linux-partitions-using-partimage.html Backup and Restore Linux Partitions Using Partimage - Debian Admin ] ]

*Backup of entire hard disks or individual disk partitions. Full disk or volume backups are very useful for recovery in the case of a disk failure or data corruption.
*Large-scale operating system deployment. Organizations with multiple, similar computer systems may use Partimage or similar utilities to ease the process of operating system and software provisioning.

Features

For Windows users, Partimage includes experimental support for NTFS. Partimage supports most common Linux file systems, and can be found in many Linux distributions, including Debian [ [http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/partimage Debian Partimage] ] and the Live Distros PING, [ [http://ping.windowsdream.com/ping/download.html PING Partimage] ] Knoppix [ [http://www.kernel.org/pub/dist/knoppix/packages.txt Knoppix Partimage] ] and SystemRescueCD. [ [http://www.sysresccd.org/Detailed-packages-list SystemRescueCD Partimage] ]

Other notable features include compression of disk image files, support for backup/restore from a network file server and data encryption.

ee also

*List of disk cloning software

References

External links

* [http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page Partimage Homepage]
* [https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/partimage-users Partimage-users mailing list]