Alternatives to Partclone
Back up and restore the used blocks of supported partitions. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Partclone
Back up and restore the used blocks of supported partitions.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Partclone.
Clonezilla
A bootable disk cloner that images a whole drive or partition, including systems it cannot understand.
Clonezilla is a bootable cloner that images whole drives including the boot loader, falls back to sector copies for unknown filesystems, and can deploy images over the network.
FSArchiver
Command-line archiver that saves and restores whole Linux filesystems.
FSArchiver works at the filesystem level, so archives can restore onto a partition of a different size or filesystem type, though the filesystem must be unmounted.
Rescuezilla
A bootable disk imaging and cloning tool that is Clonezilla with a graphical interface people can actually use.
Rescuezilla adds a point-and-click interface to Clonezilla-compatible imaging and boots from USB on any PC or Mac, but restoring to a smaller drive is restricted.
Foxclone
Point-and-click Linux tool for imaging, restoring and cloning disk partitions.
Foxclone images, restores and clones NTFS and ext4 partitions with compression from a simple graphical interface running in a Linux live environment.
Redo Rescue
Create and restore disk images from a bootable rescue environment.
Redo Rescue creates and restores disk images from a bootable rescue environment, which can recover a computer that no longer boots its installed system.
qt-fsarchiver
Graphical front-end for FSArchiver that backs up and restores Linux partitions.
qt-fsarchiver wraps FSArchiver in a graphical window for partition and MBR backup and restore, with packaging for Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, SUSE and Fedora.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
GNU ddrescue
A command-line data recovery tool that copies raw blocks from failing disks while working around read errors.
SystemRescue
A bootable Linux toolkit for repairing a broken machine: partitioning, filesystem repair, data recovery and network tools on one USB stick.
Disk2vhd
Sysinternals tool that turns a running Windows system into a VHD or VHDX disk image.
Relax-and-Recover
A Linux bare-metal disaster recovery tool that creates bootable rescue media and ties into backup software.
Win32 Disk Imager
A Windows tool for writing raw disk images to USB drives and SD cards, or backing them up.
