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Status - fsarchiver
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Fsarchiver 0.6.10 and more recent versions are considered stable, except the NTFS support which is experimental. The latest stable version is 0.8.x and it is the recommended version for all users. Retrieved from " http:/ www.fsarchiver.org/wiki/index.php? This page was last modified on 9 August 2016, at 22:49. This page has been accessed 39,623 times.
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Tests - fsarchiver
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Tests which have been made. Important tests are being done with FSArchiver to make sure it works as expected. Tests environments have been installed: different Linux distributions (Centos-5.2, Fedora-8.0, Fedora-11, Ubuntu-9.04) have been installed using different file systems, in order to make sure FSArchiver can compile on various linux flavors, and that it can save and restore on all these operating systems with no error. How the basic test is done. Here is the detailed test procedure. Getfattr -P -d ...
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Multithreading - fsarchiver
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Implementation of the multi-threading. Overview of the threads. General rules for multi-threading:. Implementation of the multi-threading. FSArchiver is using three kinds of threads even if you don't use the option "-j". There is a main thread, a archive-io thread, and one or more compression/decompression threads. When you use option "-j" you just create more than one compression/decompression threads. Overview of the threads. Here are how the threads work:. When we write an archive (savefs / savedir):.
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FAQ - fsarchiver
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1 Can the restored file-system be a boot filesystem (like the root partition) ? Yes, FSArchiver can backup the root file-system, but you may have to run grub-installer again after you restore the file-system where the boot-loader (grub) is installed. FSArchiver has been successfully able to save and restore the root file-system of a Fedora-8 with SELinux on it as you can see in the status page. 2 When I save the root file system, and restore it as another file-system, is the fstab modified ?
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File-format - fsarchiver
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About the file format. About regular files management. How files are stored in the archive. About the file format. The file format is made of two sort of structures: headers and data-blocks. The headers are all a dictionnary where the key is an integer. That way we can add new things in headers in next versions without having to break the file format. About regular files management. Creating a normal tar.gz file is like compressing a tar file. It means if there is a corruption in the tar.gz f...For this ...
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Live-backup - fsarchiver
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Backup with a snapshot. Backup with no snapshot. FSArchiver can be used to backup linux operating systems when they are running. In other words, if you have linux installed on your hard disk, and it's currently running, you can make a backup of that disk using fsarchiver. It's called a. All you need is an fsarchiver binary, an another filesystem where to save the archive. It can be on another partition on the hard-disk, or a network file-system such as Samba of NFS. Backup with a snapshot. If your partit...
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QuickStart - fsarchiver
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How to save filesystems to an archive. How to extract filesystems from an archive. Display info about an archive. Splitting the archive into several volumes. Detection of the filesystems. Command line and its arguments. You may first read the page about installation. If you plan to use FSArchiver from the linux system which is installed on your computer. This sections tells you how to use FSArchiver once it has been installed, or from a livecd. How to save filesystems to an archive. Here is how to restor...
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Fsarchiver vs partimage - fsarchiver
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Here is a table that summarizes the differences between partimage and fsarchiver:. Ability to save/restore standard linux filesystems (ext2, ext3, reiserfs, xfs, jfs). Ability to save/restore new generation linux filesystems (ext4, reiser4, btrfs). Ability to save/restore windows ntfs filesystems. Requires kernel support for the filesystem to work (or ntfs3g for ntfs). Ability to restore the filesystem to a partition which is smaller than the original. Compression algorithms which are supported.
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fsarchiver:About - fsarchiver
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Compression - fsarchiver
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Recent fsarchiver version comes with support for four different compression algorithms:. Lzo: it is very fast compression but it does not compress well. You can use it if you have a very slow cpu. Gzip: it is the most common compression algorithm. It's quite fast and the compression ratio is good. Bzip2: it is a quite slow compression algorithm, but it has a very good compression ratio. Since it does not require any library to work, and it supports everything that fsarchiver can do. Fsarchiver is able to...
