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Clonezilla vs Timeshift: catalog facts
Clonezilla	Timeshift
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 2.0 or later. Maintained by the Linux Mint team.
Linux	Linux
Images a whole drive including the boot loader, so a restore just boots Skips unused blocks on filesystems it understands, keeping images small	Rolls a broken update back without reinstalling Works on any filesystem with rsync, or natively on BTRFS
You boot into it; there is no scheduled or background operation The destination drive must be at least as large as the source	Backs up system files, not your documents, by default Linux only
Downloadable app, Operating system	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL (see project site)	License: GPL-2.0-or-later
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 21, 2026

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