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

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