qt4-fsarchiver

A backup program worse than any malware. I started a backup then changed my mind and cancelled it to start it again later - because the target is a slow USB drive (source is SSD). And it then proceeded to completely wipe my whole Linux partition. Right in the middle of doing other things my system started wigging out and crashed. I rebooted and then nothing... it was all gone. The whole OS and my User directory. The entire partition was empty except for about 20 high level empty directories. 130GB of data all gone! And it was my first backup attempt so I am completely screwed. How can a backup program do such a thing??????? The developer should be ashamed of himself. My system has been running numerous different Linux distro's and Windows in a multiboot multi-partition config for years. I cannot believe that my attempt to be safe and backup my current working partition has resulted in losing an untold amount of important files.

Thanks for the great software! Tell me, what is the root password in the live dvd version?

I could not live without this project! Being able to easily make copies of partitions and then restore them allows me to keep a stable of custom distros to put on any machine. Being able to do a live backup and to make "images" when only a small part of a partition is being used or I need to restore to a larger partition is a godsend. This is a uber geek necessary gui tool, fsarchiver command line on steroids. It's pretty intuitive and I have never needed support or had an issue. I would rate Dieter's "design" higher if he would have someone proof his English version as he has a few potentially confusing grammatical mistakes like "the partition is restored" when he means "restoring the partition" and "Stored partitions" button which should be "Save a partition". Once you like it use his ppa qt5-fsarchiver-64-bit to keep it up to date.

Great enough to be a must have.

Excellent idea but lacks with some problems. CONS: 1) Imaging a partition worked fine but cloning a drive to an image file showed errors and never worked. 2) Nautilus doesn't easily let you type in a network location would rather have thunar 3) Some applications are in German especially a problem when you want to do more than clone 4) It boots with a UK keyboard and takes some time to switch over to US PROS: 1) Fast 2) Nice GUI with the front end for the fsarchiver cloning app I hope the issues get fixed then I would love this live CD