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1. Introduction

1.1 What is new in documentation?

Revision 1.5: License is now Gnu FDL

Revision 1.6: Minor changes

Revision 1.7: Partimaged port changed from 13000 to 4025, assigned by IANA

Revision 1.8: A new section about Usage / Apple iMac

Revision 1.11: A new section about Usage / Backup, update and add images

Revision 1.12: New section in FAQ: Does partimage take ACL into account?

Revision 1.13: New section in FAQ: What does partimage give you over the following DD...?

Revision 1.14: Updates from Nick Veitch

Revision 1.15: Minor updates

Revision 1.16: Fixed openssl command line

Revision 1.17: Updates version to 0.6.1

Revision 1.18: Minor updates, update to 0.6.2

Revision 1.19: Extracted FAQ section into new file: faq.sgml

1.2 What is it?

- Partition Image is a Linux/UNIX partition imaging utility: it saves partitions formatted using the Ext2FS (the linux standard), ReiserFS (a new journaled and powerful file system), JFS IBM journaled file systems from AIX, NTFS (Windows NT File System), FAT16/32 (DOS & Windows file systems), or HPFS (OS/2 file system) file system formats to an image file. Only used blocks are copied. The image file can be compressed in the GZIP/BZIP2 formats to save disk space, and split into multiple files to be copied on removable media (ZIP for example), or burned on a CD-R ...

- This allows the user to save a full Linux/Windows system, with a single operation. When problems occur (viruses, crash, error, ...), you just have to restore, and after several minutes, all your system is restored (boot, files, ...), and fully working.

- This is very useful when installing the same software on many machines: just install one of them, create an image, and then restore the image on all other machines. After the first one, each subsequent installation can be made automaticaly, and only requires a few minutes.

1.3 Changes


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