Alternatives to FSArchiver
Command-line archiver that saves and restores whole Linux filesystems. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
FSArchiver
Command-line archiver that saves and restores whole Linux filesystems.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as FSArchiver.
qt-fsarchiver
Graphical front-end for FSArchiver that backs up and restores Linux partitions.
qt-fsarchiver adds a graphical window around FSArchiver's partition and MBR handling, packaged for Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, SUSE and Fedora, with a dated interface.
Partclone
Back up and restore the used blocks of supported partitions.
Partclone images used blocks across several filesystem types, but works at block level, so restores overwrite a destination partition rather than adapting to a different size.
Clonezilla
A bootable disk cloner that images a whole drive or partition, including systems it cannot understand.
Clonezilla is a bootable tool that images whole drives including the boot loader, but it cannot restore single files and needs an equal or larger destination.
Foxclone
Point-and-click Linux tool for imaging, restoring and cloning disk partitions.
Foxclone offers a point-and-click live environment for imaging NTFS and ext4 partitions and partition tables, rather than filesystem-level command-line archives.
Rescuezilla
A bootable disk imaging and cloning tool that is Clonezilla with a graphical interface people can actually use.
Rescuezilla provides graphical bootable whole-drive imaging compatible with Clonezilla, but restoring to a smaller drive is restricted.
Redo Rescue
Create and restore disk images from a bootable rescue environment.
Redo Rescue creates and restores disk images from a bootable environment, trading FSArchiver's filesystem flexibility for whole-disk recovery.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
SystemRescue
A bootable Linux toolkit for repairing a broken machine: partitioning, filesystem repair, data recovery and network tools on one USB stick.
GNU ddrescue
A command-line data recovery tool that copies raw blocks from failing disks while working around read errors.
Timeshift
System restore for Linux: scheduled snapshots you can roll back to after an update goes wrong.
Relax-and-Recover
A Linux bare-metal disaster recovery tool that creates bootable rescue media and ties into backup software.
