DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: Partimage

I've used this software to make my own backups and I tried it with dsl (kern 2.4, not dsl-n)and works fine so I think is a good ad-on to DSL

Below is the author's description (http://www.partimage.org

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Partition Image is a Linux/UNIX utility which saves partitions in many formats (see below) to an image file. 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 floppies (ZIP for example), ... Partitions can be saved across the network since version 0.6.0.

supported FS

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Supported file systems::
Name Description State
ext2fs/ext3fs the linux standard stable
Reiser3 a journalized and powerful file system stable
FAT16/32 DOS and Windows file systems stable
HPFS IBM OS/2 File System stable
JFS Journalised File System, from IBM, used on Aix stable
XFS another jounalized and efficient File System, from sgi, used on Irix stable
UFS Unix File System beta
HFS MacOS File System beta
NTFS Windows NT, 2000 and XP experimental

It is about 1.4 Megabytes and up to 3 with the image server

original here.