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Article #6Re: ANOUNCEMENT: zsplit, unzsplit: free linux tools to make a full drive image backup!
From: Thomas Wana
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 07:36
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 07:36
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Impressive. But wait! Do I have that already installed on my system? jurij@device-image.de wrote: > Please visit the homepage of DeviceImage-Project: > http://www.device-image.de > > Disk images provide a powerful backup-restore solution and are exact > copies of your hard drive which are created by using low level byte by > byte copy operation. So even if your drive goes bad, you will still > have an entire copy of your system that you can restore. man dd > > zsplit and unsplit are Linux utilities. > zsplit is a command line imager, which allows you to create an exact > disk image. Finally it compresses the output image file and splits it > into chunks of defined size to fit exactly the size of storage media > (CD, DVD or HDD). man dd man bzip2 man gzip man split > > unzsplit is a command line restore tool. It restores files produced by > zsplit to its origin, i.e. splitted and compressed image files will be > uncompressed, tied together and restored to the original device or > partition. man cat man bzip2 man gzip > > Key Features : > > 1. runs under GNU/Linux OS done > > 2. creates images from FAT16, FAT16X, FAT32, FAT32X, NTFS (MS Windows- > 95, -98, -Me, -NT4, -2000, -XP), Linux Ext2, Linux Ext3, ReiserFS and > Linux swap partitions. done > > 3. is able to create images from Very Large Files or devices (tested > with 200 Gygabyte devices) done > > 4. output image files can be compressed to various density (900 MiB > (megabyte binary) FAT32 partition can be compressed to 350 - 400 MB > and can be stored on one CD) done (man mkisofs, man cdrecord) > > 5. output image file can be splitted into pieces of defined size done > > 6. in case of partially damaged devices, blocks and/or sectors safely > reads all remaining intact sectors done > > 7. supports non-seekable input and output (so you can use pipes for > stdin and/or stdout) done > > Please visit the homepage of DeviceImage-Project: > http://www.device-image.de Innovative work, congratulations. Tom
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