Data backups, images, and more with Qt4-fsarchiver
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Qt4-fsarchiver lets you back up files, complete partitions, and create disk images with a single mouse click.
Linux supports a variety of filesystems, includes security software for encryption, and can handle a variety of compression methods and formats. The Linux environment thus offers perfect conditions for handling system and data backups in heterogeneous environments. The graphical Qt4-fsarchiver tool removes virtually all limitations.
Qt4-fsarchiver is a graphical version of the very useful fsarchiver tool, which the project developers describe as a "… tool that allows you to save the contents of a file-system to a compressed archive file. The file-system can be restored on a partition which has a different size and it can be restored on a different file-system."
Qt4-fsarchiver is included in the repositories of Mandriva derivatives Mageia, OpenMandriva, ALT Linux, and Rosa Linux. On Ubuntu, you need to add the appropriate PPA [1] to the package sources before easily installing the software using the package manager. For Linux Mint, Debian "wheezy," and Debian "jessie" [2], as well as openSUSE and Fedora [3], you'll find precompiled packages on SourceForge. If you are looking for a special treat, try the Qt4-fsarchiver Live DVD, which weighs in at approximately 960MB. The Live DVD is based on Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS and includes UEFI support.
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