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Macrium ReflectClonezilla
Paid

A paid licence is required after the trial.

 Free

Free and open source, released under the GPL and developed at Taiwan's NCHC Free Software…

Windows Linux
  • Reliable bare-metal imaging with a well-tested rescue environment
  • Rapid Delta imaging and restore shortens both operations substantially
  • Images a whole drive including the boot loader, so a restore just boots
  • Skips unused blocks on filesystems it understands, keeping images small
  • The long-standing free edition was retired; it is now a paid product with a trial
  • Windows only, closed source
  • You boot into it; there is no scheduled or background operation
  • The destination drive must be at least as large as the source
Downloadable app Downloadable app, Operating system
Closed source Open source
License not stated License: GPL (see project site)
Not stated if an account is needed No account needed
Not stated if it works offline Works offline

Checked September 22, 2026

Checked September 21, 2026

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