Alternatives to Clonezilla

A bootable disk cloner that images a whole drive or partition, including systems it cannot understand. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as Clonezilla.

  • Rescuezilla

    A bootable disk imaging and cloning tool that is Clonezilla with a graphical interface people can actually use.

    FreeOpen sourceLinux

    Rescuezilla uses Clonezilla-compatible images in both directions but adds a point-and-click interface, and boots on any PC or Mac.

  • Redo Rescue

    Create and restore disk images from a bootable rescue environment.

    FreeOpen sourceLinux

    Redo Rescue creates and restores disk images from a bootable rescue environment, and is GPL-3.0 open source like Clonezilla.

  • Foxclone

    Point-and-click Linux tool for imaging, restoring and cloning disk partitions.

    FreeOpen sourceLinux

    Foxclone offers a simple graphical interface for imaging, restoring and cloning NTFS and ext4 partitions from a Linux live environment.

  • Partclone

    Back up and restore the used blocks of supported partitions.

    FreeOpen sourceLinux

    Partclone backs up and restores used blocks of supported partitions directly, without Clonezilla's boot menu or network deployment.

  • FSArchiver

    Command-line archiver that saves and restores whole Linux filesystems.

    FreeOpen sourceLinuxCommand line

    FSArchiver works at the filesystem level, so archives can restore onto a different size or filesystem type, but requires unmounted filesystems.

  • Macrium Reflect

    Windows disk imaging and recovery with rapid delta restore.

    PaidProprietaryWindows

    Macrium Reflect is paid, closed-source Windows imaging that runs from the desktop with Rapid Delta restore and a rescue environment.

  • AOMEI Backupper

    Windows backup and cloning tool with scheduled system and file jobs.

    FreemiumProprietaryWindows

    AOMEI Backupper runs inside Windows with scheduled system and disk backups plus a bootable rescue disc, but is closed source and Windows only.

  • Veeam Agent

    Image-based backup agent for Windows and Linux endpoints, free for individual machines.

    FreemiumProprietaryWindowsLinux

    Veeam Agent does scheduled image-level backup with bare-metal recovery from within Windows or Linux, free for single machines but closed source.

Also worth comparing

These listings name Clonezilla as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.

  • qt-fsarchiver

    Graphical front-end for FSArchiver that backs up and restores Linux partitions.

    FreeOpen sourceLinux

    Clonezilla images whole drives and partitions at block level, including the boot loader, from a bootable text menu, but has no single-file restore.

  • Relax-and-Recover

    A Linux bare-metal disaster recovery tool that creates bootable rescue media and ties into backup software.

    FreeOpen sourceLinuxCommand line

    Clonezilla images a whole drive including the boot loader from a bootable environment, rather than creating rescue media tied to a separate backup tool.

  • SuperDuper!

    Mac utility that makes fully bootable copies of a startup disk on an external drive.

    PaidProprietarymacOS

    Clonezilla is a free, open-source bootable disk cloner with a text menu interface, imaging whole drives including the boot loader, but without scheduled or background operation.

  • Timeshift

    System restore for Linux: scheduled snapshots you can roll back to after an update goes wrong.

    FreeOpen sourceLinux

    Clonezilla takes full drive images from a boot environment using text menus, with no scheduled or background operation and no single-file restore, unlike Timeshift's automatic snapshot levels.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.