Comparison of disk cloning software

Short description: Compares cloning software

Disk cloning software makes an exact copy (clone) of a storage medium such as a hard disk (HDD) or SSD by using software techniques to copy data from a source to a destination drive or to a disk image. For example, a bootable identical SSD clone can be made of a working HDD that boots into Mac OS.

## Contents

* 1 List
* 2 See also
* 2.1 Concepts
* 2.2 Lists
* 2.3 Comparison
* 3 References

## List

Note: the operating system listed is the operating system (OS) the cloning software runs under. Some cloning software can be used to clone storage media with a different OS installed, either by booting a host computer into the cloner's OS (for example, with a boot "rescue" CD, DVD, or USB-connected boot medium), or by connecting the storage medium being cloned to a computer running the cloning software.  Template:Sort-under

Disk Cloning Software
Disk cloning capabilities of various software. Name  | Operating system  | User Interface  | Cloning features  | Operation model  | License

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Windows | Linux | MacOS | Live OS  | CLI | GUI | Sector by sector[lower-alpha 1] | File based[lower-alpha 2] | Hot transfer[lower-alpha 3] | Standalone  | Client–server
Acronis True Image[1][lower-alpha 4] | Yes  | No  | Yes | Yes (64 MB)  | No  | Yes  | Yes | FAT32, NTFS, HFS+, APFS, ext2, ext3, ext4 and ReiserFS[2] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Trialware[lower-alpha 5]
AOMEI Partition Assistant[3] | Yes  | No  | No | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes | No  | style="background:#9F9;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes"|Yes | Yes | No | Freemium
Apple Software Restore | No  | No  | Yes | No  | Yes  | No  | Yes | HFS+ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Part of macOS
Carbon Copy Cloner | No  | ?  | Yes  | 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  | style="background:#F99;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no"|No | Yes | No | GPL
dd (Unix) | No  | Yes  | Yes | Yes[lower-alpha 6] | Yes  | No  | Yes | No  | style="background:#F99;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no"|No | Yes | No | GPLv3
Disks (gnome-disk-utility) | No  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No

| No  | No  | ? | Part of Gnome
DiskGenius  | Yes  | No  | No | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes | FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, ext2, ext3, ext4 | Yes | Yes | No | Freemium
Disk Utility | No  | Yes  | Yes | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes | HFS+ | Yes | Yes | No | Part of macOS
FSArchiver | No  | Yes  | ? | ?  | Yes  | No  | No | FAT32, btrfs, ext2, ext3, ext4, ReiserFS-4, HPFS, JFS, XFS | Yes | Yes | No | GPL
Ghost[5] | Yes  | No  | Yes | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes | FAT32, NTFS, HPFS, ext2, ext3[6] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Trialware
GParted Live CD[7] | No  | Yes  | No | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No | ext2, ext3 | No | Yes | No | GPL
Image for Windows[8] | Yes  | No  | No | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes | FAT32, NTFS, ext2, ext3 | Yes | Yes | No | Trialware
IsoBuster[9] | Yes  | No  | No | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes | FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, ExFAT, NTFS, ext2, ext3, ext4, MFS, HFS, HFS+, UDF, XFS,[10] ReFS[11] | 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[12] | No  | ?  | No | Yes *[lower-alpha 7] | Yes  | No  | Yes | FAT32, NTFS, ext2, ext3 | Yes | Yes | ? | GPL
ntfsclone[13][14] | No  | Yes  | No | No[lower-alpha 8] | Yes  | No  | No | NTFS | ? | Yes | No | GPL
partimage[15][16] | Yes  | Yes  | No | No[lower-alpha 8] | Yes  | No  | No | FAT32, ext2, ext3, ReiserFS-3, HPFS, JFS, XFS;
UFS (beta), HFS (beta), NTFS (experimental)[16] | ? | Yes | Yes | GPL
Partition-Saving[17] | Yes  | Yes  | No | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes | FAT32, NTFS, ext2, ext3 | No | Yes | No | Freeware
MiniTool ShadowMaker[18] | Yes  | No  | No | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes | FAT32, NTFS, ext2, ext3, exFAT | 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
Notes

1. ↑ Sector-by-sector transfer involves accessing the disk directly and copying the contents of each sector, thus accurately reproducing the layout of the source disk.
2. ↑ File-based transfer (as opposed to sector-by-sector transfer), involves opening all files and copying their contents, one by one. It requires the cloning utility to have a knowledge of the file systems on the source disk. The target disk's layout may not resemble that of the source disk.
3. ↑ Hot transfer refers to copying the contents of a volume on which there are open files in use. Implies use of shadow copy or a similar technique.
4. ↑ For a time the home version was named Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office.
5. ↑ At the trial version, you can't perform Disk Cloning feature via UI nor Rescue disc. Both methods are locked.
6. ↑ There is no Live OS dedicated specially to dd. However Live CDs of various flavors of Linux should include dd as a part of coreutils. In general this applies also to Linux-based rescue CDs (although they may not provide dd explicitly as their primary tool, they still may give access to a shell which allows dd invocation).
7. ↑ There is no ready-to-use Live CD with this utility. It does come bundled with Mindi-Linux which is a small Linux distribution that can be used to create a customized Live CD.
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 There is no Live CD dedicated specially to this utility. However, it is present on several rescue CD's together with other software.

## See also

### Concepts

* Disk image
* Disk cloning
* Backup

### Lists

* List of backup software
* List of data recovery software
* List of disk partitioning software

### Comparison

* Comparison of disc image software

## References

1. ↑ Zhidkov, D. A., Kuligina, N. O., & Pavlycheva, T. N. (2020). Methods and Problems of Updating the Microsoft Windows 7 Operating System to Microsoft Windows 10 in the Energy Enterprise. European Journal of Natural History, (6), 30-34.
2. ↑ Bate, Madeleine. "Acronis True Image Review 2021: Is the High Cost Worth It?" Website Planet, WebsitePlanet, 10 May 2021, https://www.websiteplanet.com/cloud-storage/acronis/.
3. ↑ "AOMEI". AOMEItech. https://www.aomeitech.com/.
4. ↑ Clonezilla home page (includes supported filesystems and other info)
5. ↑ "Norton Ghost". Symantec. http://us.norton.com/ghost.
6. ↑ "Ghost compatibility with various file systems". https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.TECH107916.html.
7. ↑ "GParted Live CD". https://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php.
8. ↑ TeraByte Image for Windows home page
9. ↑ Clone a drive or partition with IsoBuster, Managed or otherwise
10. ↑ IsoBuster 4.3 Release notes
11. ↑ IsoBuster 4.8 Release notes
12. ↑ "MondoRescue HOWTO". http://www.mondorescue.org/docs/mondorescue-howto.html.
13. ↑ About ntfsclone
14. ↑ ntfsclone(8) man page
15. ↑ "Partimage home page". http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page.
16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 "Supported filesystems". Partimage. https://www.partimage.org/Supported-Filesystems/.
17. ↑ Partition-Saving manual
18. ↑ "MiniTool ShadowMaker official site". https://www.minitool.com/backup/.

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