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Clonezilla vs Relax-and-Recover: catalog facts
Clonezilla	Relax-and-Recover
Free Free and open source, released under the GPL and developed at Taiwan's NCHC Free Software…	Free Free and open source under the GPL.
Linux	Linux, Command line
Images a whole drive including the boot loader, so a restore just boots Skips unused blocks on filesystems it understands, keeping images small	Creates bootable rescue USB sticks or ISO images Works with many backup tools such as Borg, Bacula and Duplicity
You boot into it; there is no scheduled or background operation The destination drive must be at least as large as the source	Linux only Command-line setup with no graphical interface
Downloadable app, Operating system	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL (see project site)	License: GPL
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026

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