Alternatives to Rescuezilla

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

  • Clonezilla

    A bootable disk cloner that images a whole drive or partition, including systems it cannot understand.

    FreeOpen sourceLinux

    Clonezilla is the upstream project with compatible images, using a text menu instead of point-and-click, and adding network deployment of one image to many machines.

  • Redo Rescue

    Create and restore disk images from a bootable rescue environment.

    FreeOpen sourceLinux

    Redo Rescue is another GPL-3.0 bootable environment for creating and restoring disk images, useful for recovering a computer that no longer boots.

  • Foxclone

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

    FreeOpen sourceLinux

    Foxclone offers graphical imaging and cloning of NTFS and ext4 partitions with compressed images, run from a Linux live environment.

  • Macrium Reflect

    Windows disk imaging and recovery with rapid delta restore.

    PaidProprietaryWindows

    Macrium Reflect runs on Windows as paid, closed-source software with Rapid Delta imaging and a rescue environment, rather than a free bootable USB tool.

  • Hasleo Backup Suite

    Free Windows backup for system images, disks, partitions and files.

    FreemiumProprietaryWindows

    Hasleo Backup Suite images and clones from inside Windows with bootable recovery media, free for personal use but closed source and Windows only.

  • AOMEI Backupper

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

    FreemiumProprietaryWindows

    AOMEI Backupper adds scheduled incremental system, disk and file backups from inside Windows, but it is closed source and some restore features are paid.

  • qt-fsarchiver

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

    FreeOpen sourceLinux

    qt-fsarchiver backs up and restores Linux partitions at filesystem level through a graphical window, allowing restores onto differently sized partitions.

  • Partclone

    Back up and restore the used blocks of supported partitions.

    FreeOpen sourceLinux

    Partclone images used blocks of supported partitions from the command line on Linux, without a bootable graphical environment of its own.

Also worth comparing

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

  • Acronis True Image

    Personal backup application from Acronis that combines image-based backup with anti-malware protection.

    PaidProprietaryWindowsmacOS

    Rescuezilla is free and open source whole-drive imaging that you boot from USB, so there is no scheduled backup or anti-malware.

  • FSArchiver

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

    FreeOpen sourceLinuxCommand line

    Rescuezilla provides graphical bootable whole-drive imaging compatible with Clonezilla, but restoring to a smaller drive is restricted.

  • O&O DiskImage

    A Windows backup program that makes complete system images and file backups and restores them after failures.

    PaidProprietaryWindows

    Rescuezilla is free and open source, imaging whole drives from a bootable USB stick, but is not suited to everyday file backups.

  • Relax-and-Recover

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

    FreeOpen sourceLinuxCommand line

    Rescuezilla takes whole-drive images through a point-and-click bootable environment, so restores bring back the full system without separate backup software.

  • SuperDuper!

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

    PaidProprietarymacOS

    Rescuezilla is free and open source under GPL-3.0, boots from a USB stick on any PC or Mac and images the whole drive instead of running from your desktop.

  • SystemRescue

    A bootable Linux toolkit for repairing a broken machine: partitioning, filesystem repair, data recovery and network tools on one USB stick.

    FreeOpen sourceLinux

    Rescuezilla is a free GPL-3.0 bootable USB tool with a point-and-click interface, but it focuses on imaging and cloning whole drives instead of repair tools.

  • Timeshift

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

    FreeOpen sourceLinux

    Rescuezilla images the whole drive from a bootable USB stick with a point-and-click interface, so a restore brings back everything, but it cannot run scheduled snapshots from the desktop.

  • Veeam Agent

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

    FreemiumProprietaryWindowsLinux

    Rescuezilla is free and open source, imaging whole drives from a bootable USB stick with a graphical interface, but it has no scheduling since you boot into it.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.