[ Thanks to david for
this link. ]
“Partition Image is a Linux/UNIX utility which saves partitions
in many formats to an image file. The image file can be compressed
in the GZIP/BZIP2 formats to save disk space, and split into
multiple files to be copied on removable floppies (ZIP for
example), … Partitions can be saved across the network since
version 0.6.0.When using Partimage, the partitions must be
unmounted.“First you can restore your linux partition if there is a
problem (virus, file system errors, manipulation error) . When you
have a problem, you just have to restore the partition, and after
10 minutes, you have the original partition. You can write the
image to a CD-R if you don’t want the image to use hard-disk
space…”