Clonezilla vs Macrium Reflect
Clonezilla
clonezilla.org
Macrium Reflect
macrium.comSide by side
| Figure | Clonezilla | Macrium Reflect |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 6 |
| Spec score · Disk Cloning Software | 8.7 (#1) | 7.9 (#12) |
| Spec score · Backup software | 8.6 (#32) | 8.3 (#45) |
| Spec score · Disk Imaging Software | 8.7 (#7) | 8.0 (#14) |
| Backup scope | mixed | mixed |
| Computer backup | Yes | Yes |
| Free plan | Yes | No |
| Mobile backup | No | No |
| Supported platforms | Linux-based bootable environment; can image supported file systems used by Linux,Windows,Mac,BSD,Minix,VMware ESX,and Chrome OS/Chromium OS | windows |
| Purpose | Clonezilla is a partition and disk imaging and cloning program for system deployment, bare metal backup, and recovery. | Macrium Reflect Home is a backup and recovery solution for personal users that can protect an entire system or selected files and projects. |
| Ransomware protection | No | Reflect Home includes Macrium Image Guardian, which the maker says blocks ransomware and accidental deletion of backups. |
| Restore modes | mixed | mixed |
| Server backup | Yes | Yes |
Plans
Macrium Reflect
- Reflect LTSCPrice not published
- Reflect X Home — 1-year termPrice not published
- Reflect X Home — 3-year termPrice not published
- Reflect X StandalonePrice not published
- SiteBackupPriced on request
- TechniciansPrice not published
In their own words
Clonezilla
Clonezilla is a free, open-source program for imaging and cloning partitions and disks for system deployment, bare-metal backup, and recovery. Clonezilla live is suited to one machine; lite server and Clonezilla SE can clone many computers at once, with the site describing 40-plus computers. It saves and restores used blocks on supported file systems and uses sector-to-sector copying for unsupported ones. Listed file systems include Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD, Minix, and VMware formats, including ext4, NTFS, APFS, and VMFS3/5. Images can be kept on a local disk or SSH, Samba, NFS, or WebDAV servers, and can be encrypted with AES-256. Clonezilla SE supports multicast, while lite server supports BitTorrent deployment. Clonezilla live supports BIOS or UEFI boot and MBR and GPT. It requires an x86 or x86-64 processor, 196 MB RAM, and a boot device. The destination partition must be at least as large as the source. Differential and incremental backups and online imaging are not implemented; images cannot be mounted or explored for direct individual-file recovery.
Macrium Reflect
Macrium Reflect has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.