Fsarchiver vs partimage
From FSArchiver
Here is a table that summarizes the differences between partimage and fsarchiver:
| fsarchiver
| partimage
|
| Ability to save/restore standard linux filesystems (ext2, ext3, reiserfs, xfs, jfs)
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Ability to save/restore new generation linux filesystems (ext4, reiser4, btrfs)
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Ability to save/restore windows ntfs filesystems
|
Yes (beta)
|
Yes (experimental)
|
| Requires kernel support for the filesystem to work (or ntfs3g for ntfs)
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Ability to restore the filesystem to a partition which is smaller than the original
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Ability to restore the filesystem to a partition which is bigger than the original
|
Yes
|
Yes (requires resizefs)
|
| Require the filesystem tools (mkfs, tunefs, ...) to be installed to save the filesystem:
|
No
|
No
|
| Require the filesystem tools (mkfs, tunefs, ...) to be installed to restore the filesystem:
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Checksumming of the data and ability to restore corrupt archives
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Compression algorithms which are supported
|
lzo, gzip, bzip2, lzma
|
gzip, bzip2
|
| Ability to do multi-threaded compression which is faster on recent computer with multiple cores/cpu
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Ability to encrypt the data with a password
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Information taken into account to save the filesystem:
|
Files
|
Blocks
|
| User interface that comes with the program by default:
|
Text
|
Semi-graphical
|
