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Timeshift vs Clonezilla: catalog facts
Timeshift	Clonezilla
Free Free and open source under the GPL 2.0 or later. Maintained by the Linux Mint team.	Free Free and open source, released under the GPL and developed at Taiwan's NCHC Free Software…
Linux	Linux
Rolls a broken update back without reinstalling Works on any filesystem with rsync, or natively on BTRFS	Images a whole drive including the boot loader, so a restore just boots Skips unused blocks on filesystems it understands, keeping images small
Backs up system files, not your documents, by default Linux only	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-2.0-or-later	License: GPL (see project site)
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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