Partition images with Partimage and Partimaged
This is a guide to create or restore images of your partitions using the great open source tool Partimage. It provides information on how to do this locally or across the network, by setting up a Partimaged Server. I guess this info is non distribution specific, since we will work from a Rescue environment.
The same operations can be performed using the dd utility, but the usage of Partimage is recommended as it does not include the partition’s free space in the image, resulting in images smaller in size and less required time to complete the operation. Partimage is a command line tool with a basic ncurses user interface. For information about the supported filesystems, you can check its homepage.
The most important thing when saving/restoring your partitions to/from image files is that they are not mounted, so to keep away from trouble. It is also highly recommended that these operations are done from a Rescue environment. Most distributions’ installation media provide such an option in their welcome screen or else one of the various Live CDs can be used.
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