Bug 10159

Summary:	add partclone (partition imaging program) to Mageia
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Greg McGee <gjmcgee>
Component:	New RPM package request	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal	CC:	dglent
Version:	3
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Greg McGee 2013-05-20 01:30:54 CEST

Add partclone (partition imaging program) to Mageia proper.

Partclone is robust, allows you to image back to files, and had built in checksumming for backup verification. 


Also has a "dd" mode for raw or unsupported filessytems, like NextSTEP.
(still extensively used in Lam Research tools)

Still under active development unlike partimage, should have replaced it by default years ago.

Mandriva et al have had it for ages, and is available on the Mageia BDK repo for MGA2.

I use it regularly in a professional setting.
(Equipment backups in semiconductor industry)

Comment 1 Dimitrios Glentadakis 2013-05-30 20:52:33 CEST

I see an available rpm here (64bit version):

http://ftp.blogdrake.net/mageia/mageia3/free/x86_64/partclone-0.2.38-1bdk.mga3.x86_64.rpm


until it will be available in the official repos

CC: (none) => dglent

Comment 2 Marja Van Waes 2015-03-31 16:02:45 CEST

Mageia 3 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status 4 months ago.
http://blog.mageia.org/en/2014/11/26/lets-say-goodbye-to-mageia-3/ 

Mageia 3 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Mageia
please feel free to click on "Version" change it against that version of Mageia
and reopen this bug.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.

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Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD