Partition-Saving
Partition-Saving is a disk imaging utility for Linux, Windows and DOS environments that can save disk partitions in one of the several supported disk image formats.
This utility was originally called Savepart but was renamed to avoid conflict with a similarly named OS/2 utility.
Common uses
Some common uses for Partition-Saving are as follows:- Backup of individual disk partitions. Volume backups are very useful for recovery in the case of a disk failure or data corruption
- Correction of boot parameters as boot sector content or Windows boot configuration
Features
Partition-Saving has following features:- Backup of any partition types
- Backup of FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, Ext2, Ext3, Ext4, NTFS partitions with only occupied sectors
- Backup of Master boot record, partition table, FAT boot sector content and superblock
- Compression of data
- Saving a partition over itself
- Mount a backup file to extract only some files
- Modification of the Windows Registry to force partition drive letter
- Modification of some filesystem content:,,,,
Limitations
Partition-Saving has following limitations:- Backup of a running OS is not possible : that means it needs to boot from another OS or from a Live CD to backup Linux or Windows system partition
- When a full backup is performed, restoration can only be done on partition of same size and at same place on disk. The Chunauti option can be used to work around this, but no correction will be done on partition content to reflect this incompatibility
- When only occupied sectors are saved, restoration can be done on a partition of different size but with limitations on this size
- Creating backup files on NTFS drive from DOS is not available, but modifying an existing file can be used. So if needed, dummy files from Windows can e created and then used from DOS to perform the backup