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.apfs
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.

Partclone

Install / Use

README