About:
Partition Image is a Linux/UNIX utility similar to Symantec's Ghost. This uility saves partitions in the EXT2, Reiserfs, NTFS, HPFS, FAT16, and FAT32 file system formats to an image file. The image file can be compressed with gzip or bzip2 in order to save disk space, and it can be split in order to fit onto a series of floppy disks. This program can be useful for backup purposes. A boot/root disk is also provided, allowing you to run Partition Image without Linux installed on the hard disk.

Author:
François Dupoux [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.08/10.00 (15 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.partimage.org/
Tar/GZ:
http://www.partimage.org/Download
Tar/BZ2:
http://www.partimage.org/Download
Changelog:
http://www.partimage.org/Changelog
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://partimage.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/partimage/

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		Console (Text Based) :: Newt
[Intended Audience]		Developers, End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		POSIX :: Linux
[Programming Language]		C++
[Topic]		System :: Filesystems, System :: Systems Administration

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	0.6.6	15-Aug-2007	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
0.6.6	Minor bugfixes	15-Aug-2007 18:32
0.6.5	Minor bugfixes	16-Dec-2006 20:34
0.6.2	Major bugfixes	14-Jun-2003 07:24
0.6.1	Minor bugfixes	27-Nov-2001 17:47
0.6.0	Minor bugfixes	01-Nov-2001 15:40
0.6.0-RC3	Minor bugfixes	13-Sep-2001 14:25
0.6.0-RC2	Minor bugfixes	20-Aug-2001 22:58
0.6.0-RC1	Major feature enhancements	26-Jul-2001 16:32
0.3.6	Major bugfixes	22-May-2001 12:50
0.3.4	N/A	02-Oct-2000 09:10

 Articles referencing this project

• Computer Cloning with Partition Image
  by Vlad Setchin , in Tutorials
  Sat, Nov 13th 2004 00:00
  

 Comments

[»] Fantastic
by scribbler - Jul 10th 2003 11:23:59

Partition Image is a fantastic free alternative to the commercial Norton Ghost. Using the KNOPPIX live ISO, I was able to fully back up my Windows hard drive (FAT32), purposely destroy it using deltree, and fully restore it, without a single hitch from the program itself.

If I had to find a fault with the software, I'd have to say it's a little slow backing up/restoring. But that, to be honest is probably not a fault with the program. After all, it was a 2Gb FAT32 partition, and an hour either way to backup/restore the compressed data is a lot easier than having to install Windoze from scratch. The built-in functionality to compress the backup files works like a charm, it compressed those 2Gb's down to about 1.3Gb, easily enough space to fit onto CD.

It took an hour to back up a 10Gb ReiserFS partition on another machine without any compression. And considering the age/speed of the machine, this is totally adequate.

Overall, a fantastic program, and one I'm going to use a lot.

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[»] brilliant - beats ghost
by be - Apr 20th 2003 03:58:24

like a lot of people ive got at least one dual boot system, with a mix of linux/ntfs partitions. ive also got an external usb drive. ghost couldnt use it, this app let me create images of all my partitions in no time at all directly to the usb drive.
it was just so easy to backup to the usb drive compared with ghost!!

but more importantly, it worked, i deleted a few files
on several partitions and it restored the partitions
effortlessly. i only came ´unstuck´ when i reduced the
size of one 6gb partition by 200mb, it wouldnt attempt to restore from the image file.

installing the static rpm was a breeze, the gui didnt work
but the web page carries that warning, so after the first error with it, i stopped bothering.

this is a damn good app and well worth the look for any home hacker or technician who usually carries a copy of ghost in the tool kit.

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[»] Re: brilliant - beats ghost
by Plutoid - Jul 9th 2003 16:58:09


> like a lot of people ive got at least
> one dual boot system, with a mix of
> linux/ntfs partitions. ive also got an
> external usb drive. ghost couldnt use
> it, this app let me create images of all
> my partitions in no time at all directly
> to the usb drive.
> it was just so easy to backup to the usb
> drive compared with ghost!!
>
> but more importantly, it worked, i
> deleted a few files
> on several partitions and it restored
> the partitions
> effortlessly. i only came
> ´unstuck´ when i reduced the
>
> size of one 6gb partition by 200mb, it
> wouldnt attempt to restore from the
> image file.
>
> installing the static rpm was a breeze,
> the gui didnt work
> but the web page carries that warning,
> so after the first error with it, i
> stopped bothering.
>
> this is a damn good app and well worth
> the look for any home hacker or
> technician who usually carries a copy of
> ghost in the tool kit.
It almost sounds too good to be true. I will have to check it out! Jake@plutoid.com

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