Clonezilla vs MiniTool Drive Copy
Clonezilla
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| Figure | Clonezilla | MiniTool Drive Copy |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Disk Cloning Software | 8.7 (#1) | 7.2 (#23) |
| File systems | The site lists support for Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD, Minix, and VMware file systems, including ext4, NTFS, APFS, and VMFS3/5. | Listed supported file systems include FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS, and NTFS 5. |
| Purpose | Clonezilla is a partition and disk imaging and cloning program for system deployment, bare metal backup, and recovery. | MiniTool Drive Copy copies disks and partitions and can help upgrade to a larger hard disk or an SSD without reinstalling the operating system. |
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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.
MiniTool Drive Copy
MiniTool Drive Copy has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.