Taking Backup of Sparse Images


you can use tar --sparse (or -S) -S , --sparse

Taking the backup:
Handle sparse files efficiently create file:
tar cvSfj file.tar.bz2 sparsefile

Decompressing the file:
and then decompress:
tar xSf file.tar.bz2

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