Clonezilla vs Rescuezilla
Clonezilla
clonezilla.org
Rescuezilla
rescuezilla.comSide by side
| Figure | Clonezilla | Rescuezilla |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Disk Cloning Software | 8.7 (#1) | 7.6 (#19) |
| Spec score · Disk backup tools | 8.7 (#2) | 7.7 (#8) |
| Spec score · Backup software | 8.6 (#32) | 7.6 (#98) |
| Spec score · Disk Imaging Software | 8.7 (#7) | 7.6 (#22) |
| Backup scope | mixed | mixed |
| Computer backup | Yes | Yes |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| 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,macOS,Linux (computers); Rescuezilla boots from USB using a Linux live environment |
| Purpose | Clonezilla is a partition and disk imaging and cloning program for system deployment, bare metal backup, and recovery. | Rescuezilla is an open-source disk imaging app for backup, restore, and recovery. |
| Restore modes | mixed | mixed |
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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.
Rescuezilla
Rescuezilla is a free, open-source disk imaging app for computer backup, restore, and recovery. It starts from a USB stick or CD-ROM in a Linux live environment, so it can be used when the computer’s regular operating system will not boot. It supports Windows, macOS, and Linux computers, and its images are compatible with Clonezilla in both directions. Supported image types include raw images and virtual machine formats from VirtualBox, VMware, Hyper-V, and QEMU. Graphical tools can edit, manage, and resize partitions, and the app can recover deleted files to another drive. A beta feature lets users browse files inside supported backup images, though large gzip- or zstandard-compressed images may be slow to browse. Rescuezilla can connect to SMB/CIFS network shares, some of which may require SMB 1.0. The USB environment runs read-only, so changes made during a session disappear after reboot. To restore to a smaller disk, the source disk must first be resized with GParted.