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fcorbelli / zpaqfranz

Deduplicating archiver with encryption and paranoid-level tests. Swiss army knife for the serious backup and disaster recovery manager. Ransomware neutralizer. Win/Linux/Unix
MIT License
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Can I use it to image windows install ? #60

Closed SiddharthManthan closed 1 year ago

SiddharthManthan commented 1 year ago

Assuming I wish to restore manually, can I incrementally image the windows install ? Basically only copying the used blocks.

Plus what will the process of restoring look like ?

fcorbelli commented 1 year ago

You cannot get only the used blocks You can use command to zero the free space

Then take all the sectors (deduplicated, compressed, encrypted)

To restore you must extract the raw image, then... open with 7z, for example, that "understand" NTFS based images (or some kind of raw image mounter, like osfmount or whatever)

From 7z gui you can easily extract every file or folder

I do this way

SiddharthManthan commented 1 year ago

Are there opensource other tools that allow me to create ntfs images ?

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You cannot get only the used blocks You can use command to zero the free space

Then take all the sectors (deduplicated, compressed, encrypted)

To restore you must extract the raw image, then... open with 7z, for example, that "understand" NTFS based images (or some kind of raw image mounter, like osfmount or whatever)

From 7z gui you can easily extract every file or folder

I do this way

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fcorbelli commented 1 year ago

Some version of dd (ported on Windows) Older zpaqfranz build retain a full dd.exe inside (!)
look from this first dd-enabled release

graphixillusion commented 6 months ago

After the imaging of the c partition made with zpaq -image, will be possible to write it back to a clean partition using dd under a linux live env?

fcorbelli commented 6 months ago

You can try 😄

Actually it is more backup mechanism for "strange" files than image for restoring. As soon as I find some time I will do some experiments with it

graphixillusion commented 6 months ago

Or another solution could be mount img with osfmount, then capture the image with dism and apply it back with dism using the official way.