Partimage is a Linux utility which saves partitions having a supported filesystem to an image file. Most Linux and Windows filesystems are supported. The image file can be compressed with the gzip / bzip2 programs to save disk space, and they can be splitted into multiple files to be copied on CDs / DVDs, … Partitions can also be saved across the network. For this tutorial I will use the systemrescuecd livecd, to boot the system and save the image to a remote share on the network. The partition I will be saving/restoring is an ntfs partition.

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