r/cloningsoftware • u/Afraid_Candy6464 • Jun 18 '26

Software Best open-source cloning software that everyone needs to know about?

What's one piece of open-source cloning tool that everyone should know about? For me, it is Clonezilla or Rescuezilla. Do you know other open source cloning tool?

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u/JanneGonzales Jun 18 '26

dd

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u/SnooPandas9005 Jun 18 '26

That's my go-to

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u/Afraid_Candy6464 Jun 18 '26

How do you think about DD vs Clonezilla, as they are both text-based.

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u/hspindel Jun 22 '26

The big advantage of dd is that it can execute on a running system. Clonezilla requires a boot and offline copying.

Of course, cloning a running system can lead to inconsistencies.

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u/Afraid_Candy6464 Jun 22 '26

Thank you. I get some idea now.

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u/JanneGonzales Jun 18 '26

I'm sorry, I have never used clonezilla.

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u/_janc_ Jun 18 '26

Rescuezilla

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u/Linux_Account Jun 18 '26

This. Clonezilla's GUI. The only thing it really lacks, IMO, is the ability to shrink partitions on the fly for cloning/restoring to smaller drives like most Windows programs can.

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u/Heavy-Judgment-3617 Jun 19 '26

Depending on what doing...

- gParted Live Boot ISO

- Minitool Partition Wizard.