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Partclone: Without Compression

Partclone is a backup and restore tool that can create disk images of partitions while only backing up used blocks. It supports backing up and restoring ext4 partitions with or without compression. Installation is via the official Arch Linux repositories and usage involves specifying the source and destination partitions or image files along with compression options if desired.

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Partclone: Without Compression

Partclone is a backup and restore tool that can create disk images of partitions while only backing up used blocks. It supports backing up and restoring ext4 partitions with or without compression. Installation is via the official Arch Linux repositories and usage involves specifying the source and destination partitions or image files along with compression options if desired.

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Partclone
FromArchWiki
Partclone(http://partclone.org),likethewellknownPartimage(http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page),canbe
usedtobackupandrestoreapartitionwhileconsideringonlyusedblocks.
Contents
1Installation
2UsingPartclonewithanext4formattedpartition
2.1Withoutcompression
2.2Withcompression
Installation
Installpartclone (https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?name=partclone)fromtheofficial
repositories.
UsingPartclonewithanext4formattedpartition
Withoutcompression
Tobackupwithoutcompression:
$ partclone.ext4 -c -s /dev/sda1 -o ~/image_sda1.pcl
Torestoreit:
$ partclone.ext4 -r -s ~/image_sda1.pcl -o /dev/sda1
Withcompression
Tobackupwithcompression:
$ partclone.ext4 -c -s /dev/sda1 | gzip -c > ~/image_sda1.pcl.gz
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Note:Formaximumcompressionuse"gzipc9"
Torestoreit:
zcat ~/image_sda1.pcl.gz | partclone.ext4 -r -o /dev/sda1
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