doCloneĭoClone is also a free software project that is developed to clone Linux system partitions easily, written in C++, it supports up to 12 different filesystems, it can perform Grub bootloader restoration and can transform the clone image to other computers via LAN, it also supports live cloning which means that you can create a clone from the system even when it is up and running, doClone. G4L is a free Live CD system to clone hard disk easily, it’s the main feature is that you can compress the filesystem, send it via FTP or CIFS or SSHFS or NFS to any location you want, it also supports GPT partitions since version 0.41, it is licensed under BSD license and available to download for free. Licensed under GPL, it is available as a tool in Clonezilla as well, you can download it as a package. 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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