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 filesystem: Linux:

  • Ext2, Ext3, and Ext4
  • Reiserfs
  • Reiser4
  • Xfs

Windows:

  • NTFS
  • FAT

MAC OS X:

  • HFS plus

FreeBSD:

  • UFS2

VMware Server ESX4:

  • vmfs