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Disk cloning software facilitates a disk cloning operation by using software techniques to copy data from a source to a destination drive or to a disk image.
Name | Operating system | User Interface | Cloning features | Operation model | License | |||||||
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Windows | Linux | MacOS | Live OS | CLI | GUI | Sector by sector [a] | File based [b] | Hot transfer [c] | Standalone | Client–server | ||
Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office [1] [d] | Yes | No | Yes | Yes (64 MB) | No | Yes | Yes | FAT32, NTFS, HFS+, APFS, ext2, ext3, ext4 and ReiserFS [2] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Trialware [e] |
AOMEI [3] | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Freemium |
Apple Software Restore | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | HFS+ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Part of macOS |
Carbon Copy Cloner | No | ? | ? | No | No | Yes | Yes | APFS, HFS+ | Yes | Yes | ? | Trialware |
Clonezilla [4] | No | Yes | ? | Yes (210 MB) | Yes | No | Yes | FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, reiser4, xfs, jfs, btrfs, f2fs, NILFS2, HFS+, UFS, minix, VMFS3 | No | Yes | Yes (Clonezilla server edition) | GPL |
dcfldd | No | Yes | No | ? | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | GPL |
Disks (gnome-disk-utility) | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Part of Gnome | ||
DiskGenius | Yes | No | No | ? | Yes | No | Yes | FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, ext2, ext3, ext4 | No | Yes | No | Freemium |
Disk Utility | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | HFS+ | Yes | Yes | No | Part of macOS |
EaseUS Partition Master [5] | Yes | No | No | Yes (526MB) | No | Yes | Yes | NTFS, ext4, ext3, ext2, FAT32, FAT16, FAT12, ReFS | Yes | Yes | Yes (Enterprise edition) | Trialware |
FSArchiver | No | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | No | No | FAT32, btrfs, ext2, ext3, ext4, ReiserFS-4, HPFS, JFS, XFS | ? | Yes | No | GPL |
Ghost [6] | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | FAT32, NTFS, HPFS, ext2, ext3 [7] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Trialware |
GParted Live CD [8] | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | ext2, ext3 | No | Yes | No | GPL |
Image for Windows [9] | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | FAT32, NTFS, ext2, ext3 | Yes | Yes | No | Trialware |
IsoBuster [10] | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, ExFAT, NTFS, ext2, ext3, ext4, MFS, HFS, HFS+, UDF, XFS, [11] ReFS [12] | No | Yes | No | Trialware |
Kleo Bare Metal Backup | No | ? | ? | Yes (570 MB) | No | Yes | Yes | FAT32, NTFS, ext2, ext3, HFS+ | No | No | Yes | Freeware |
Macrium Reflect | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? | No | No | No | Trialware |
Mondo Rescue [13] | No | ? | No | Yes * [f] | Yes | No | Yes | FAT32, NTFS, ext2, ext3 | Yes | Yes | ? | GPL |
ntfsclone [14] [15] | No | Yes | No | No [g] | Yes | No | No | NTFS | ? | Yes | No | GPL |
partimage [16] [17] | Yes | Yes | No | No [g] | Yes | No | No |
FAT32,
ext2,
ext3,
ReiserFS-3,
HPFS,
JFS,
XFS; UFS (beta), HFS (beta), NTFS (experimental) [18] |
? | Yes | Yes | GPL |
Partition-Saving [19] | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | FAT32, NTFS, ext2, ext3 | No | Yes | No | Freeware |
Redo Backup and Recovery | No | No | No | Yes (225 MB) | No | Yes | Yes | FAT32, NTFS, ext2, ext3, ext4 | No | No | Can access networked drives | GPL |
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