Creating entire disk images using fsarchiver
fsarchiver is a tool which can save the contents of a complete filesystem to a compressed archive file. Due to these abilities, it is one of the most complete and easy to use tools for backup.
fsarchiver is the successor of partimage - the well-known filesystem backup solution. fsarchiver has the advantage of supporting newer filesystems like ext4
when compared to partimage
, however the latter has a minimal GUI that makes it somewhat easier to use.
Getting ready
fsarchiver is not installed in most of the distros by default. You will have to manually install it using your package manager. If you want more information, go to http://www.fsarchiver.org/Installation
How to do it...
- Creating a backup of a filesystem/partition ...
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