Imaging Windows and Linux Partitions

Hello Fred!

Thank you for finding time to share your experience with us. I entirely understand your concern and will be glad to shaed the light to the situation.

I regret to inform you that unfortunately Ext4 is no longer supported in Acronis True Image Home 2010. You can see the list of supported file systems in the User's Guide, chapter 1.4.3 p.13.

I entirely understand how inconvenient this situation is, and will definitely forward a request to our Development team regarding adding Ext4 support to Acronis True Image Home 2010/2011.

Should you need anything else or have any further questions - feel free to contact us at your earliest convenience, we will be happy to help you!

Thank you!

I find it very frustrating that TI will not image Linux partitions. I run a dual boot system with Windows 7 and Mandriva Linux. It took me a long time and a lot of trial and error to get it properly installed and working, and it would be nice if I could backup those partitions.

Thanks,
William

There are freeware products that will image Linux partitions, but I'm not sure if they support ext4 yet or not. A quick search should find several of them, I believe Clonezilla supports ext4. FWIW, I used Acronis to image an ext3 linux partition with GRUB in the PBR and when I restored it found that Acronis had decided to zero out the GRUB sector (as opposed to just doing nothing at all) so my boot manager could no longer find GRUB. I had another copy of that partition from one of the free tools, and it restored it perfectly, so Acronis isn't all that great for linux applications anyway. I really like using Acronis tools (the older versions in my case), and appreciate them supporting this forum, but since they don't support your application I don't feel guilty about using their forum to recommend another product to solve your problem.

Edit: I had been meaning to do a test restore anyway, so I used Clonezilla to restore an ext4 partition of Ubuntu Lucid (10.04) and it worked perfectly. I'm not sure if Clonezilla is based on partimage under the hood or not, there was some mention of it that I recall reading before, but I'm not sure. The partimage website didn't seem to mention ext4 capability the last time I looked, but it may have been recently added.

Thanks for the info. I'll probably do the backup from within Mandriva, so I'll find a way to do it that way.

this is the exact thing i did a search for yesterday and replied to a thread was a little off target.

you mean acronis used to be capable of doing this, but doesn't anymore? that really stinks as i just created a dual boot with zenwalk 6.4 and windows 7 on several machines.

will acronis still at least be capable of backing up the windows partitons correctly?

not on computer that i can check what version i have installed, but pretty sure it's the same as op's.

thank you