Cloning an EXT4 partition

[Liam Proven]

On Mon, 5 Aug 2019 at 23:03, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> All my backup media are ext4 (maybe an occasional NTFS, but not lately).
> So I still don't get it.  Nowadays it's almost always a 4 TB internal drive in
> a USB 3 drive dock, and I formatted it EXT4 myself to give it names that
> make sense in my backup scheme.  I have a dozen or so of these.

OK, so it's not that, then.

What are you using to make the images?

Another plug for partimage:
http://www.partimage.org

It has an option to automatically split / recombine backups across
multiple files of your chosen size. I think from memory it defaults to
2 decimal GB which fits nearly inside FAT32's 2 GiB restriction.


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