# Comparison of disk cloning software

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.

## List

Disk Cloning Software Disk cloning capabilities of various software. :
| Name | Operating system | Operating system | Operating system | Operating system | User Interface | User Interface | Cloning features | Cloning features | Cloning features | Operation model | Operation model | License |
| Name | Windows | Linux | MacOS | Live OS | CLI | GUI | Sector by sector | File based | Hot transfer | Standalone | Client–server | License |
| Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office | Yes | No | Yes | Yes (64 MB) | No | Yes | Yes | FAT32, NTFS, HFS+, APFS, ext2, ext3, ext4 and ReiserFS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Trialware |
| AOMEI | 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 | ? | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | APFS, HFS+ | Yes | Yes | ? | Trialware |
| Clonezilla | 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 |
| dd (Unix) | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | 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 |
| EaseUS Partition Master | 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 | Yes | No | GPL |
| Ghost | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | FAT32, NTFS, HPFS, ext2, ext3 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Trialware |
| GParted Live CD | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | ext2, ext3 | No | Yes | No | GPL |
| Image for Windows | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | FAT32, NTFS, ext2, ext3 | Yes | Yes | No | Trialware |
| IsoBuster | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, ExFAT, NTFS, ext2, ext3, ext4, MFS, HFS, HFS+, UDF, XFS, ReFS | 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 | No | ? | No | Yes * | Yes | No | Yes | FAT32, NTFS, ext2, ext3 | Yes | Yes | ? | GPL |
| ntfsclone | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | NTFS | ? | Yes | No | GPL |
| partimage | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | FAT32, ext2, ext3, ReiserFS-3, HPFS, JFS, XFS; UFS (beta), HFS (beta), NTFS (experimental) | ? | Yes | Yes | GPL |
| Partition-Saving | 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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| ↑ 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. ↑ 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. ↑ 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. ↑ Previously known as Acronis TrueImage. This is the home version. ↑ At the trial version, you can't perform Disk Cloning feature via UI nor Rescue disc. Both methods are locked. ↑ 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). ↑ 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. 1 2 There is no Live CD dedicated specially to this utility. However, it is present on several rescue CD's together with other software. |||||||||||||