Partclone is a free tool to clone & restore partitions, written in C in first appeared in 2007, it supports many filesystems like ext2, ext3, ext4, xfs, nfs, reiserfs, reiser4, hfs+, btrfs and it is very simple to use. You can download FSArchiver and install it on your system, or you can download SystemRescueCD which also contains FSArchiver.

Ability to split big files in size to a smaller one.

Ability to compress the archive in many formats like lzo, gzip, bzip2, lzma/xz.

Ability to have more than one filesystem in an archive.

Ability to restore corrupted archives by just skipping the corrupted file.

Support for checksums which enables you to check for data corruption.

Support for NTFS partitions of Windows and Ext of Linux and UnixLike.

Support the basic filesystem attributes (label, UUID, blocksize) for all Linux filesystems.

Support for extended attributes like those used by SELinux.

Support for basic file attributes like owner, permissions, etc.

FSArchiverįSArchiver is a continuation of Partimage, also a good tool to clone hard disks, it supports cloning Ext4 partitions and NTFS partitions, here’s a list of features: Features Related Article: How to Backup or Clone Linux Partitions Using ‘cat’ Command 4.

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