FSArchiver
| Original author(s) | Francois Dupoux |
|---|---|
| Initial release | November 10, 2008 |
| Stable release | 0.6.15 / June 2, 2012 |
| Operating system | Linux, Cross-platform (Live CD) |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website |
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FSArchiver is a disk cloning utility for Linux. FSArchiver can save partitions containing different popular file systems to a disk image. It is a continuation of PartImage, which was a project from one of the same authors, and implements new features that PartImage lacks.
FSArchiver strives to be more feature-rich and less UX than PartImage. As a result, it is used by other software and toolsets for its functionality. Two of the most widely used features that PartImage lacks are support for multi-core compression and support for the commonly used Ext4 filesystem.
Features
For Windows users, FSArchiver includes support for NTFS.[1] FSArchiver supports most modern Linux file systems such as ext4, reiser4 and btrfs.
Other notable features include modern and multi-threaded compression[2] of disk image files, combined with file-based images (as opposed to block-based images most similar tools use) to enhance compression by ignoring unused clusters.