ANOUNCEMENT: zsplit, unzsplit: free linux tools to make a full drive image backup
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Disk images provide a powerful backup-restore solution and are exact copies of your hard drive which are created by using low level byte by byte copy operation. So even if your drive goes bad, you will still have an entire copy of your system that you can restore.
zsplit and unsplit are Linux utilities. zsplit is a command line imager, which allows you to create an exact disk image. Finally it compresses the output image file and splits it into chunks of defined size to fit exactly the size of storage media (CD, DVD or HDD).
unzsplit is a command line restore tool. It restores files produced by zsplit to its origin, i.e. splitted and compressed image files will be uncompressed, tied together and restored to the original device or parbreastion.
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Key Features :
1. runs under GNU-Linux OS
2. creates images from FAT16, FAT16X, FAT32, FAT32X, NTFS (MS Windows- 95, -98, -Me, -NT4, -2000, -XP), Linux Ext2, Linux Ext3, ReiserFS and Linux swap parbreastions.
3. is able to create images from Very Large Files or devices (tested with 200 Gygabyte devices)
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4. output image files can be compressed to various density (900 MiB (megabyte binary) FAT32 parbreastion can be compressed to 350 - 400 MB and can be stored on one CD)
5. output image file can be splitted into pieces of defined size
6. in case of partially damaged devices, blocks and-or sectors safely reads all remaining intact sectors
7. supports non-seekable input and output (so you can use pipes for stdin and-or stdout)
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