A very nice app

macgregor · #1 24th July 2005, 02:53 AM

Let me tell you about a very nice app I have found. It's called PartImage and is available here

I was looking for a way to backup my entire FC4 install in case of emergency. I found PartImage and it sounded good. I did not download the app, but purchased a copy of SimplyMEPIS 3.3.1 (it was only $3.00) from Linux Central since SimplyMEPIS has a copy of PartImage on the LiveCD. You can also purchase the SystemRescueCD from Budget Linux CD's, which also has PartImage on it.

I popped SimplyMEPIS in the CD tray, did a reboot and MEPIS started up. I opened a console in MEPIS and typed "partimage" and partimage started up. The PartImage UI was so easy to use that I didn't need to read much and I had my /boot and / partitions backed up in about hour. You do, however, need to make sure that the partition you are copying from is not mounted and the partition that you are saving to is mounted. Using the gz (gzip) option in PartImage, I was able to get my 9Gb / partition shrunk down to 2Gb and I put that on /dev/hdb4 for storage. Now when I need to restore my / or /boot partitions, it's as easy as loading MEPIS and using PartImage.

PartImage is an awesome app and SimplyMEPIS is an awesome LiveCD. I recommend that everyone obtain a copy of SimplyMEPIS because it can be used for so many things.. office documents, DVD movies, music CD's, surfing the net, email, etc - a full Linux distro that runs without the need of a hard drive is quite handy to have. I take SimplyMEPIS with me when I go to a friends house or the library or anywhere that I am not able to install Fedora.

SlowJet · #2 24th July 2005, 03:17 AM

It's not a current backup and recovery tool for FC with EXT3attr (SELinux) w/wo LVM.

There is only one - The lastest version of dump.

SJ

macgregor · #3 24th July 2005, 03:32 AM

Oh, ok.. well I disabled SELinux and PartImage works fine for me. Just thought I'd mention it.

nandowong · #4 24th July 2005, 03:45 AM

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Originally Posted by macgregor

Oh, ok.. well I disabled SELinux and PartImage works fine for me. Just thought I'd mention it.

I will give it a try, thanks

have you try restoring it?

macgregor · #5 24th July 2005, 06:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nandowong

I will give it a try, thanks

have you try restoring it?

Yes, works fine here

AlphaTwin · #6 24th August 2005, 02:18 AM

Hello,

I have a question about partimage. I downloaded a rescue cd as well as Knoppix so I could image my Linux Drive.

I see how to make the image that is all very straight forward. However at no point during the setup does it ask where I want to "put" the image. Am I missing something?

I went so far as to let it start making the image but I"ll be darned if I can find where it was putting it.

There must be something that I'm missing.

Thanks
Eric

AlphaTwin · #7 24th August 2005, 02:23 AM

Never mind... I'm a dip s#$t.

I should have read there site first.

sorry all

Later
Eric

MasterC · #8 20th October 2005, 09:06 AM

Any chance there will be something added to any of the official yum repositories with partimage in it?

I am really tired of having to reboot to knoppix every time I want to backup/restore something on my home network

Thanks!

Cool

giulix · #9 20th October 2005, 09:36 AM

Problem is when you try to build the last release coughs out an error during install and exits. Won't build an RPM with the provided SPEC file either. By taking the file mkinstalldirs from an older version and putting it into the build tree, it compiled and installed but then core dumped. I also had to modify the main Makefile.in to get rid of some "partimaged" user which wasn't present on my system. Now it seems to be working fine, but a "stable" version shouldn't be such a headache to build...