Partclone

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Partclone
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Version: 0.2.88 updated
Upload Date: 11 Apr 16
Distribution Type: Freeware
Downloads: 43

Rating: 3.3/5 (Total Votes: 4)

Partclone is a free and open source command-line software implemented in C and designed from the offset as an alternative to the Partition Image (also known as partimage) program, but for GNU/Linux systems.

This tool can be used by system administrators or advanced users to manually clone disk partitions, as well as to backup and restore the filesystem of a Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows or ESX system. It uses the e2fslibs library for higher compatibility with existing filesystems.

Features at a glance

Key features include support for a wide range of filesystems (see the next section for details), support for backing up and restoring Linux, BSD, Apple, Windows and ESX filesystems, as well as an easy-to-use and intuitive CLI interface based on the Ncurses library.

Supported file systems

While on GNU/Linux systems, Partclone supports the EXT2, EXT3, EXT4, Btrfs, XFS, JFS, ReiserFS and Reiser4 filesystem, on Microsoft Windows supports the FAT and NTFS filesystems, on Mac OS X supports the HFS+ filesystem, on FreeBSD supports the UFS2 filesystem, and on the ESX VMware server supports the VMFS (version 0.2.3 or later) filesystem.

Command-line options

First of all, we should mention that Partclone comprises of several commands, such as partclone.imager, partclone.restore, partclone.dd, partclone.chkimg, partclone.info and partclone.ntfsfixboot.

Each one comes with its own command-line options, so you will have to run them one by one with the ‘--help’ string and see what options are available. Comprehensive documentation about how to use Partclone can be found on the man page or the project’s website.

Under the hood and availability

As mentioned, the software is written entirely in the C programming language. It is distributed as a native installer for 32-bit (i386) Debian/Ubuntu-based operating system, as well as a universal sources archive that can be installed on any GNU/Linux system, supporting both 32-bit and 64-bit instruction set architectures.

What is new in this release:

  • This release fixed the main progress time display and updated the documentation.
  • Display problems when the elapsed or remind time is over 24 hours were fixed.

What is new in version 0.2.87:

  • This release fixed the main progress time display and updated the documentation.
  • Display problems when the elapsed or remind time is over 24 hours were fixed.

What is new in version 0.2.84:

  • This release fixed the main progress time display and updated the documentation.
  • Display problems when the elapsed or remind time is over 24 hours were fixed.

What is new in version 0.2.83:

  • This release fixed the main progress time display and updated the documentation.
  • Display problems when the elapsed or remind time is over 24 hours were fixed.

What is new in version 0.2.79:

  • This release fixed the main progress time display and updated the documentation.
  • Display problems when the elapsed or remind time is over 24 hours were fixed.

What is new in version 0.2.78:

  • This release fixed the main progress time display and updated the documentation.
  • Display problems when the elapsed or remind time is over 24 hours were fixed.

What is new in version 0.2.76:

  • This release fixed the main progress time display and updated the documentation.
  • Display problems when the elapsed or remind time is over 24 hours were fixed.

What is new in version 0.2.48:

  • This version fixed a backup failure when VMFS-5 used an unallocated block, and fixed a bitmap_size error in NTFS backup for Windows 2008.
  • The Debian package control file was updated and libvmfs version control was added.

What is new in version 0.2.26:

  • This version was updated for e2fslibrary 1.42-WIP.
  • ntfs-3g library support was added along with a script for testing partclone easily.
  • Some bugs were fixed.

What is new in version 0.2.24:

  • Two new options were implemented: "--domain-log=FILE" and "--offset_domain=X" to support a dump file for ddrescue.

What is new in version 0.2.23:

  • A new manual was included.

What is new in version 0.2.22:

  • A typographical error was corrected for the progress indicator.

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