https://wiki.scott5.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=How_to_back_up_and_restore_a_partition 2026-04-13T00:33:58Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.43.1 https://wiki.scott5.org/index.php?title=How_to_back_up_and_restore_a_partition&diff=328&oldid=prev 2011-02-02T23:03:12Z

<p>Created page with &#039; == FSArchiver == http://www.fsarchiver.org/Main_Page Boot from SystemRescueCD. To back up a partition (when &lt;code&gt;/mnt/backup&lt;/code&gt; is already mounted): &lt;pre&gt; fsarchiver -j3 …&#039;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div><br /> == FSArchiver ==<br /> http://www.fsarchiver.org/Main_Page<br /> <br /> Boot from SystemRescueCD. To back up a partition (when &lt;code&gt;/mnt/backup&lt;/code&gt; is already mounted):<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> fsarchiver -j3 savefs /mnt/backup/ubuntu-boot.fsa /dev/sda1<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> The optional &lt;code&gt;-j3&lt;/code&gt; flag allows 3 threads to simultaneously work on compression of the backup image.<br /> <br /> To extract:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> fsarchiver restfs /mnt/backup/ubuntu-boot.fsa id=0,dest=/dev/sda1<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> <br /> == partimage ==<br /> http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page<br /> <br /> Boot from SystemRescueCD. There is a quasi-graphical user interface.<br /> <br /> Partimage does not support &lt;code&gt;ext4&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;btrfs&lt;/code&gt; filesystems.</div>

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