Partclone

Partclone
Original author(s)Thomas Tsai
Developer(s)NCHC Free Software Labs
Initial releaseNovember 25, 2007; 17 years ago (2007-11-25)
Stable release
0.3.32 / July 15, 2024; 5 months ago (2024-07-15)[1]
Repository
Written inC
Operating systemLinux, cross-platform
Available inFully translated: British English, French, Chinese
LicenseGNU General Public License
Websitepartclone.org

Partclone is a partition clone and restore tool. It provides utilities to back up and restore partitions and is designed for higher compatibility of the file system library. It is developed by the NCHC Free Software Labs in Taiwan.[2] It is the default backup application in Clonezilla,[3] FOG (from version 1.00), Redo Rescue and Rescuezilla which is simply a front end to partclone.[4] It supports many file systems and has good performance, as it skips portions of the file system marked as free space.

Utilities

Partclone currently supports the following filesystems: ext2, ext3, ext4, hfs+, reiserfs, reiser4, btrfs, vmfs(v3, v5), xfs, jfs, ufs, ntfs, fat(12/16/32), and exFAT. To run partclone for a particular filesystem, one uses the command 'partclone.<fstype>', in a similar manner to the mkfs command

  • partclone.btrfs
  • partclone.ext2, partclone.ext3, partclone.ext4
  • partclone.fat32, partclone.fat12, partclone.fat16
  • partclone.ntfs
  • partclone.exFAT
  • partclone.hfsp
  • partclone.jfs
  • partclone.reiserfs
  • partclone.reiser4
  • partclone.ufs (support SU+J)
  • partclone.vmfs (v3)
  • partclone.vmfs5 (for vmfs v5)
  • partclone.xfs

Features

Partclone is a partition image tool which attempts to only back up used data blocks. It's written in C and focuses on cloning filesystems, as opposed to cloning disks. The basic features are:

  • clone partition to image file
  • restore image file to partition
  • restore image file to raw file as loop device
  • duplicate partition on the fly
  • create domain file for ddrescue
  • crc32 support
  • pipe support (restore from stdin | clone to stdout)
  • text mode | quiet mode
  • Ncurses Text interface
  • rescue support
  • transfer rate, elapsed time calculating
  • support raw clone (like dd)
  • partclone.chkimg check image made by partclone

See also

References

  1. ^ "Releases ยท Thomas-Tsai/partclone". github.com. Retrieved 2024-04-15.
  2. ^ "Partclone- A tool to backup or restore a partition.::National Center for High-Performance Computing". Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
  3. ^ "clonezilla - About". Retrieved 12 October 2012.
  4. ^ "Bare Metal Restore Solution GUI Backup Open Source GPL Recovery". Retrieved 12 October 2012.