Submitted by “This is a guide to create or restore images of your partitions using the great open source tool Partimage. It provides information on how to do this locally or across the network, by setting up a Partimaged Server. I guess this info is non distribution specific, since we will work from a Rescue environment. Partimage is a command line tool with a basic ncurses user interface. For information about the supported filesystems, you can check its homepage.”
i prefer pcopy
http://directory.fsf.org/pcopy.html
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~pen/pcopy/
And I prefer g4u: http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/
It’s just a shell script around dd(1), gzip(1) and ftp(1), but it does a great job cloning disks and partitions in a system-agnostic way without the need for any special server-side (any FTP server will do) or client-side (just a boot floppy) software.
Really useful – thanks for this!
With a bit more work this could give Ghost a run for its money! Awesome work!
I agree. Like most open source tools the only thing missing is good ntfs support. If it had that I’d have set up a server at work right away to test if it can replace the old Ghost server we use now.
Too bad it’s only the costly commercial products that can afford to pay for access to ntfs specs.
Partimage is great, simple and easy to use. I’ve used it several times to back up a debian installation or to move it from one hard disk to the next. The latter does require some manual editing of /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf (unlike mindi/mondo) but I find it a lot more straightforward than mindi.
I especially like not having to cram everything onto optical disks. It runs just fine from an old Mandrake partition I have lying around, so I don’t have to worry about the image size or burning disks. That also lets me look stuff up online if I am unsure about something and/or play some games while I wait
i search something similar to drive imarge or ghost, i would like to copy my partition on cd or dvd
all linux software i tried allow only to copy the partition on another hd…..
any idea?
You could just make a livecd of your install, and then doodle up some scripts to make the livecd installable.