Partition-Saving
{{Short description|Disk imaging utility}}
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| author = Damien Guibouret
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| license = Freeware
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Partition-Saving is a disk imaging utility for Linux, Windows and DOS environments that can save disk partitions in one of the several supported disk image formats.
This utility was originally called Savepart but was renamed to avoid conflict with a similarly named OS/2 utility.
Common uses
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Some common uses for Partition-Saving are as follows:
Features
Partition-Saving has following features:
- Backup of any partition types (sector by sector)Corresponding manual chapters for [http://damien.guibouret.free.fr/en/lisezmoi.html#Chapitre_25_a complete disk], [http://damien.guibouret.free.fr/en/lisezmoi.html#Chapitre_25_f one partition]
- Backup of FAT12, FAT16, FAT32,Corresponding manual chapters for [http://damien.guibouret.free.fr/en/lisezmoi.html#Chapitre_25_h FAT], [http://damien.guibouret.free.fr/en/lisezmoi.html#Chapitre_25_i ext2/3/4] and [http://damien.guibouret.free.fr/en/lisezmoi.html#Chapitre_25_j NTFS] Ext2, Ext3, Ext4 (not all options), NTFS partitions with only occupied sectors (not a file by file backup, but similar in size with keeping disk organization[http://damien.guibouret.free.fr/en/lisezmoi.html#Chapitre_25_g Corresponding manual chapter])
- Backup of Master boot record, partition table (both MBR and GPT format), FAT boot sector content and superblock
- Compression of data[http://damien.guibouret.free.fr/en/lisezmoi.html#Chapitre_6_g Corresponding manual chapter]
- Saving a partition over itself (in case there is only one partition on the disk)[http://damien.guibouret.free.fr/en/lisezmoi.html#Chapitre_6_c Corresponding manual chapter]
- Mount a backup file to extract only some files[http://damien.guibouret.free.fr/en/lisezmoi.html#Chapitre_20 Corresponding manual chapter]
- Modification of the Windows Registry to force partition drive letter[http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/partsigs.shtml Understanding MultiBooting by Dan Goodell]
- Modification of some filesystem content: [http://damien.guibouret.free.fr/en/lisezmoi.html#Chapitre_14 boot sector], [http://damien.guibouret.free.fr/en/lisezmoi.html#Chapitre_13 Windows multi-boot boot sector], [http://damien.guibouret.free.fr/en/lisezmoi.html#Chapitre_12 Windows boot configuration], [http://damien.guibouret.free.fr/en/lisezmoi.html#Chapitre_15 boot sector and superblock backup], [http://damien.guibouret.free.fr/en/lisezmoi.html#Chapitre_18 bad clusters list]
It can be used either through command line, text based or batch processing mode.
Limitations
Partition-Saving has following limitations:
- Backup of a running OS is not possible (less for DOS): that means it needs to boot from another OS or from a Live CD (a FreeDOS one is provided) to backup Linux or Windows system partition
- When a full backup is performed, restoration can only be done on partition of same size and at same place on disk. The Chunauti {{mono|-force}} option can be used to work around this, but no correction will be done on partition content to reflect this incompatibility (as FAT boot sector content)
- When only occupied sectors are saved, restoration can be done on a partition of different size but with limitations on this size
- Creating backup files on NTFS drive from DOS (and Linux one if one's Linux does not know how to write on NTFS drive) is not available, but modifying an existing file can be used. So if needed, dummy files from Windows can e created and then used from DOS to perform the backup[http://damien.guibouret.free.fr/en/lisezmoi.html#Chapitre_17 Corresponding manual chapter]
See also
References
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