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## 1. Introduction

## 1.1 What is new in documentation?

Revision 1.5: License is now Gnu FDL

Revision 1.6: Minor changes

Revision 1.7: Partimaged port changed from 13000 to 4025, assigned by IANA

Revision 1.8: A new section about Usage / Apple iMac

Revision 1.11: A new section about Usage / Backup, update and add images

Revision 1.12: New section in FAQ: Does partimage take ACL into account?

Revision 1.13: New section in FAQ: What does partimage give you over the following DD...?

Revision 1.14: Updates from Nick Veitch

Revision 1.15: Minor updates

Revision 1.16: Fixed openssl command line

Revision 1.17: Updates version to 0.6.1

Revision 1.18: Minor updates, update to 0.6.2

Revision 1.19: Extracted FAQ section into new file: faq.sgml

## 1.2 What is it?

- Partition Image is a Linux/UNIX partition imaging utility: it saves partitions formatted using the Ext2FS (the linux standard), ReiserFS (a new journaled and powerful file system), JFS IBM journaled file systems from AIX, NTFS (Windows NT File System), FAT16/32 (DOS & Windows file systems), or HPFS (OS/2 file system) file system formats to an image file. Only used blocks are copied. The image file can be compressed in the GZIP/BZIP2 formats to save disk space, and split into multiple files to be copied on removable media (ZIP for example), or burned on a CD-R ...

- This allows the user to save a full Linux/Windows system, with a single operation. When problems occur (viruses, crash, error, ...), you just have to restore, and after several minutes, all your system is restored (boot, files, ...), and fully working.

- This is very useful when installing the same software on many machines: just install one of them, create an image, and then restore the image on all other machines. After the first one, each subsequent installation can be made automaticaly, and only requires a few minutes.

## 1.3 Changes

- 0.6.1: (2001-11-21)
  - LS120 support
  - BeFS detection
  - Bug fixes in FAT and NTFS support
- 0.6.0: (2001-xx-yy)
  - Network support with SSL encryption: there are two versions (server and clients). For example, you can save the image of a computer on the disk of another computer.
  - The multi-thread copy: it increases the speed of the copy.
  - Copy optimisations: several blocks are copied in a single operation. This dramatically increases the speed of the copy.
  - The batch mode, which allows for unattended operation (no questions, no forms, no message boxes)
  - Many new other options (For example, partimage can exit automatically on finish)
  - New debug log file: it will make debugging easier
  - Support of ReiserFS-3.6 (provided with kernel-2.4) New image file format to have a better error detection, a new source code kernel, to save the MBR
  - The MBR is saved, and can be restored (it contains the boot loader and the partition table)
  - IBM JFS support added (still experimental)
  - partimaged official port is 4025
- 0.3.5.3:(2001-04-02) New translations
- 0.3.5.2:(2001-03-09) ReiserFS-3.6 support
- 0.3.5.1:(2001-02-01) Bug fixes, to avoid a segfault
- 0.3.5:(2000-10-09) Bug fixes, HPFS file system support
- 0.3.4:(2000-10-01) Bug fixes, Italian translation, debian files for packaging
- 0.3.3: (2000-09-20) Bug fixes, New option: "Halt/Shutdown on finish", Documentation (in english, SGML to HTML), French translation
- 0.3.2: (2000-09-12) Bug fixes (NTFS support, Splitting), new debug system to make debug easy.
- 0.3.1: (2000-09-06) Bug fixes, compression level auto-detection at restore, beginning of the NTFS support
- 0.3.0: (2000-08-27) New semi-graphical interface (based on newt) which can be run under a console, bug fixes
- 0.2.4: (2000-08-21) Support of the ReiserFS file system, file system auto-detection
- 0.2.3: (2000-08-15) Bug fixes, removed the 2 GB partition size limitation
- 0.2.2: (2000-07-25) FAT16 and FAT32 support, bug fixes, 2 GB limit check, e2fsck check before saving, new options
- 0.2.1: (2000-06-04) Split image support, bug fixes, size check, new options
- 0.2.0: (2000-05-29) First version

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