Creating entire disk images using fsarchiver
The fsarchiver application can save the contents of a disk partition to a compressed archive file. Unlike tar or cpio, fsarchiver retains extended file attributes and can be restored to a disk with no current filesystem. The fsarchiver application recognizes and retains Windows file attributes as well as Linux attributes, making it suitable for migrating Samba-mounted partitions.
Getting ready
The fsarchiver application is not installed in most distros by default. You will have to install it using your package manager. For more information, go to http://www.fsarchiver.org/Installation.
How to do it...
- Create a backup of a
filesystem/partition.
Use the savefs option of fsarchiver like this:
fsarchiver savefs backup.fsa /dev/sda1
Here backup.fsa is the final backup file and /dev/sda1 is the partition to backup
- Back-up more than one partition at the same time.
Use the savefs option as earlier and pass the partitions as the last parameters to fsarchiver:
fsarchiver...
