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.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.