List of free disk cloning soft

This is a list of free disk cloning sofware.

Ready-to-use LiveCDs and LiveUSBs
* Clonezilla is a text-mode utility, based on partimage, ntfsclone, DRBL and udpcast. Supports ext2, ext3, reiserfs, xfs, jfs, FAT, NTFS filesystems (through PartImage or ntfsclone; only used blocks in partition are saved for them), and also can do raw sector-to-sector copying for any filesystem (through dd). Clonezilla also can copy whole disk.
* [http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ g4u (Ghost for Unix)] can do raw sector-to-sector copying of a partition or a whole disk to an FTP server or locally. Can run from CD/DVD-disk or from two floppies.
* PING (Partimage Is Not Ghost)
* Ghost for Linux
* LRS Linbox Rescue Server

Recovery LiveCDs (LiveUSBs) that include disk-cloning utilities
* SystemRescueCd. Includes PartImage and ntfsclone.
* Trinity Rescue Kit. Includes PartImage and ntfsclone.
* Recovery Is Possible. Includes PartImage and ntfsclone.

Other disk cloning soft
* PartImage is a text-mode utility for backup and restoration of partitions. Copies data from the used portions of the partition only; most Linux and Windows filesystems are supported, hovewer (as of 18-may-2008) NTFS support is still partial/expirimental . The image file can be compressed with the gzip / bzip2 programs to save disk space, and they can be splitted into multiple files to be copied on CDs / DVDs, ... Partitions can also be saved across the network since version 0.6.0 using the partimage network support, or using Samba / NFS. Is available on several LiveCDs, including SystemRescueCd.
* ntfsclone is a command-line utility for backup and restoration of NTFS partitions. Is available on several LiveCDs.
* FOG Free OpenSource Ghost
* Mondo Rescue

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