List of free disk cloning software
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This is a list of free disk cloning sofware.
[edit] General comparison
| Name | Interface | Usage | Based on | Raw copying[1] | Smart copying[1] | Architecture | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Provides Live CD (approx. size) | Boots from floppies (count) | Ext2/Ext3 | FAT32 | NTFS | HFS+ | Without server | Client/server | ||||
| Clonezilla Live | text-mode | Yes (80 MB) | No | partimage, ntfsclone, dd, partclone | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Clonezilla server edition | text-mode | Yes (230 MB) | No | partimage, ntfsclone, dd, partclone | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| g4u | command-line | Yes (3 MB) | Yes (2 floppies) | Yes | No | No | No | ? | Yes | Yes | |
| G4L | text-mode | Yes (50 MB) | No | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? |
| Linbox Rescue Server (GPL edition) | graphical | Yes (187 MB) | No | ? | No[2] | Yes | No[2] | No[2] | ? | No | Yes |
| partimage | text-mode | Partial [3] | No | No | Yes | Yes | Partial [4] | ? | Yes | No | |
| ntfsclone | none [5] | Partial [6] | No | No | No | No | Yes | ? | Yes | No | |
| FOG | graphical | No | No | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | No | Yes |
| Mondo Rescue | text-mode | No | No | partimage? | Yes? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? |
| zsplit/unzsplit | none [5] | Partial [7] | No | Yes | No | No | No | ? | Yes | No | |
- ^ a b Raw copying means a possibility to perform sector-by-sector copying of a whole partition, while smart copying means here a possibility to distinguish which portions of the partition really contain data and to copy only them.
- ^ a b c LRS has proprietary and GPL editions; LRS GPL edition cannot handle FAT and NTFS [1][2]
- ^ There is no Live CD dedicated specially to partimage. However partimage is present on several rescue CD's together with other soft.
- ^ At the current time support of NTFS in partimage is incomplete [3].
- ^ a b ntfsclone and zsplit are invoked from command line (with some parameters) and work with standard input/output.
- ^ There is no Live CD dedicated specially to ntfsclone. However ntfsclone is present on several rescue CD's together with other soft.
- ^ zsplit/unzsplit are available on DeviceImage-Live CD, however DeviceImage-Live CD is not available for free download [4].
[edit] Recovery Live CDs (Live USBs) that include disk-cloning utilities
- SystemRescueCd. Includes PartImage and ntfsclone.
- Trinity Rescue Kit. Includes PartImage and ntfsclone.
- Recovery Is Possible. Includes PartImage and ntfsclone.
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