Re: Disk logical backup tools
- Tong - wrote:
Hi,
Is there any tools that can backup disk partitions logically, for both
Linux & Windoze partitions?
By logical backup I meant, at least the backup tools don't do blind sector
to sector backup. Ideally it would be something like Norton Ghost. I hope
I can use it to backup Windoze partitions under Linux, and restore to
VmWare virtual drives.
Last time I checked, about a year or two ago, such tools didn't exist
under Linux...
thank
Is partimage what your looking for?
aptitude show partimage
Package: partimage
New: yes
State: not installed
Version: 0.6.4-17
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Maintainer: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>
Uncompressed Size: 942k
Depends: libbz2-1.0, libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1-12),
libnewt0.52, libpam0g (>= 0.76), libslang2 (>= 2.0.6-3), libssl0.9.8 (>=
0.9.8c-1), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1-12), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1)
Conflicts: partimage-server (< 0.6.0), partimage-doc (<= 20020126-6)
Description: backup partitions into a compressed image file
Partition Image is a partition imaging utility. It has support for the
following file systems:
* Ext2/3, the linux standard
* Reiser3, a journalised and powerful file system
* FAT16/32, DOS and Windows file systems
* HPFS, IBM OS/2 file system
* JFS, journalised file system, from IBM, used on AIX
* XFS, another journalised and efficient file system, from sgi, used
on Irix
* UFS (beta), Unix file system
* HFS (beta), MacOS File system
* NTFS (experimental), Windows NT, 2000 and XP
Only used blocks are copied and stored into an image file. The image
file can be compressed in the GZIP/BZIP2 formats to save disk space,
and split into multiple files to be copied onto removable media (ZIP
for example), burned on a CD-R, etc.
This makes it possible to save a full Linux/Windows system with a
single operation. In case of a problem (virus, crash, error, etc.), you
just have to restore, and after several minutes, your entire system is
restored (boot, files, etc.), and fully working.
This is very useful when installing the same software on many
machines: just install one of them, create an image, and restore the
image on
all other machines.
Homepage: http://www.partimage.org
Tags: admin::backup, interface::commandline, role::program,
scope::utility, special::not-yet-tagged, special::not-yet-tagged::p,
works-with::archive
HTH
Wackojacko
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