Image Backup Software

There are many ways in which you can backup the data on your PC. For example you can do an offline cold backup. This means you have to take the PC offline and then do a copy of the content on HDD. These so called cold backups are performed using software tools. You can backup a whole HDD or only one partition. But you are also able to do online backups. They are called hot backups. This means you do not have to interrupt the working on the PC. There are many ways in which you can achieve that. These methods include a linux box, rsync, tar etc. Also, when you are doing a full backup, this means that there will be no bit left without being saved.

Here you will find details about backing up your PC. First of all, you need to use the Partition Image to create one compressed image for every partition. In this way you will consume less space to complete each partition copy. It is very easy to use.

Software to be used

Bootable CD ROM named System Rescue CD is an invaluable resource and has a lot of tools that you can use to manipulate the partition tables, to save partitions and also to format them.

These utilities on the System Rescue CD can be used in the context of imaging PCs:

- partimage: Partition Image

- cfdisk – You can use this to manipulate tables for Linux

- fdisk – This is a Linux Partition table manipulator

- dd – you can use it to convert and then copy files

- sfdisk

The Partition Image has a lot of functionality features and you can easily use it to create images. You can easily create your own backups and also use them later in no time.