Platform independent 

• Acronis True Image
  Acronis True Image
  Acronis True Image is disk imaging software, developed by Acronis, that creates backups and recovers PC systems. The software allows a user to create an image of a disk while it is running Microsoft Windows or offline by booting from CD/DVD, USB flash drives, PXE, or other bootable media...
  
  
• Clonezilla
  Clonezilla
  Clonezilla is a free disaster recovery, disk cloning, disk imaging and deployment solution. Clonezilla is designed by Steven Shiau and developed by the NCHC Free Software Labs in Taiwan...
  
  
• dd (Unix)
  Dd (Unix)
  In computing, dd is a common Unix program whose primary purpose is the low-level copying and conversion of raw data. According to the manual page for Version 7 Unix, it will "convert and copy a file". It is used to copy a specified number of bytes or blocks, performing on-the-fly byte order...
  
  
• Drive Cloner Rx
• FarStone TotalRecovery 7 Pro
• G4L - Disk Imaging
• G4U - Disk Imaging
• Norton Ghost (Home and SMB Edition), Symantec Ghost Solution Suite (Enterprise Edition)
  Ghost (software)
  Ghost is a disk cloning program product sold by Symantec. Originally developed by Murray Haszard in 1995 for Binary Research, the technology was acquired in 1998 by Symantec. The name Ghost is an acronym for General Hardware-Oriented System Transfer.- History :Binary Research developed Ghost in...
  
  
• Kleo Bare Metal Backup for Servers
  Kleo Bare Metal Backup
  Kleo Bare Metal Backup for Servers is a free file system cloning program created by . Kleo creates an all inclusive backup of the operating system, device drivers and applications. Kleo is bundled with a LiveCD which includes tools for server recovery....
  
  
• PING (Partimage Is Not Ghost)
  PING (Partimage Is Not Ghost)
  PING is a free software Linux-based live CD ISO image built upon the Partimage and Linux From Scratch projects for disk cloning or backup purposes. The software supports most hardware platforms using Parallel ATA, Serial ATA, or SCSI systems for desktop computers, workstations, and servers...
  
  
• R-Drive Image
  R-Drive Image
  R-Drive Image is a disk cloning utility providing disk image files creation for backup or duplication purposes developed by .-Backup process:...
  
  

Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

 

• ACA System Restore - not a real disk cloning tool
• Active@ Disk Image
• Altiris
  Altiris
  Altiris Inc. is a subsidiary of Symantec specializing in service-oriented management software which allows organizations to manage IT assets. They also provide software for web services, security, and systems management products. Established in 1998, Altiris is headquartered in Lindon, Utah, United...
  
   - Deployment Solutions
• Bogus Clone - Works differently than most other Disk Cloning Software
• Clonezilla
  Clonezilla
  Clonezilla is a free disaster recovery, disk cloning, disk imaging and deployment solution. Clonezilla is designed by Steven Shiau and developed by the NCHC Free Software Labs in Taiwan...
  
   Freeware hard disk clone tool.
• DriveImage XML Backup Software Runtime Software http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm
• Easeus Todo Backup http://download.cnet.com/Easeus-Todo-Backup/3000-2242_4-10964460.html
• HDClone http://www.miray.de/products/sat.hdclone.html
• Macrium Reflect
  Macrium Reflect
  Macrium Reflect is a backup and disk imaging software program for Microsoft Windows developed by Paramount Software UK Ltd in 2006. It creates disk images and file backup archives using Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service to ensure 'point in time' data accuracy., the latest version supports...
  
  
• Microsoft Image Backup which is part of Windows 7 - does not support compression
• Paragon Backup & Recovery http://www.paragon-software.com/home/db-express/index.html
• Roadkil's Raw Copy http://www.roadkil.net/program.php/P22/Raw%20Copy
• Scriptlogic
  Scriptlogic
  ScriptLogic Corporation is a software manufacturer of network administration products for Microsoft Windows-based networks. ScriptLogic’s suite of desktop, server, and Active Directory management products allow network administrators to remotely manage network-connected desktop PCs and servers to...
  
   - Desktop Authority Image Center
• StorageCraft ShadowProtect
  ShadowProtect
  ShadowProtect is a backup and system-restore program. It allows bare-metal restores to be performed, even remotely using VNC technology. It was reviewed in PC Magazine and Windows IT Pro....
  
  
• CloudNucleus StorCube Backup and Recovery
• TeraByte Image for Windows
• TeraByte Image for DOS
• TotalRecovery
  TotalRecovery
  TotalRecovery is a backup and recovery software product, developed by FarStone Technology. Formerly known as DriveClone, TotalRecovery is written in C++ and runs only on Microsoft Windows ....
  
  
• Nero BackItUp, used nbi documents and could not mirrors images in original version (BackItUp 1 which included in Nero 6), BackItUp 2+ does mirrors images using NBA extension for file backup and NDA extension for drive backup.
• NTI Backup Now! (DriveBackup! is now part of that software), uses NBS backup set extension and NBF files for file-based backup and NPF files for drive-based backup.
• SelfImage - The "dd" for Windows http://thoren007.free.fr/
• RaWrite
• RaWrite2
• SmartDeploy

Mac 

• Apple Software Restore
  Apple Software Restore
  asr or Apple Software Restore is a command line utility in Mac OS X used to apply a DMG disk image to a selected volume or mount point on a file system. It is often used for cloning large numbers of Macintosh computers...
  
   and Disk Utility
  Disk Utility
  Disk Utility is the name of a utility created by Apple for performing disk-related tasks in Mac OS X. These tasks include:*the creation, conversion, compression and encryption of disk images from a wide range of formats read by Disk Utility to .dmg or—for CD/DVD images—.cdr, which is identical to...
  
   (included with Mac OS X
  Mac OS X
  Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...
  
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• Carbon Copy Cloner
• CopyCatX
  CopyCatX
  CopyCatX is a backup software product produced by SubRosaSoft.com Inc. The software uses byte and block-level copying to make exact duplicates of devices and volumes....
  
  
• SuperDuper!
• Synchronize! Pro X
• DeployStudio
• StarDeploy
• Clone X
• Disk Copy
  Disk Copy
  Disk Copy was the default utility for handling disk images in System 7 through Mac OS X 10.2 . In later versions of Mac OS X it has been replaced by DiskImageMounter for mounting the images and Disk Utility for creating them.Although the last official public release of Disk Copy for Mac OS 9 was...
  
  

Linux

Linux

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

 

• UDPCast
  UDPCast
  UDPcast is a file transfer tool that can send data simultaneously to many destinations on a LAN. This can for instance be used to install entire classrooms of PCs at once...
  
   - a utility to clone multiple PCs at once using multicast
• Mondo Rescue
  Mondo Rescue
  Mondo Rescue is free disaster recovery software. It supports Linux and FreeBSD . It's packaged for multiple distributions . It also supports tapes, disks, USB devices, network and CD/DVD as backup media, multiple filesystems, LVM, software and hardware RAID...
  
  
• PartImage
  Partimage
  Partimage is a disk cloning utility for Linux/UNIX environments. Partimage can save partitions in many formats to a disk image. Utilities such as Partimage are useful in a number of situations which are commonly encountered by network administrators as well as advanced computer users who maintain...
  
   (SystemRescueCD
  SystemRescueCD
  SystemRescueCd is an operating system for the x86 computer platform, though the primary purpose of SystemRescueCD is to repair unbootable or otherwise damaged computer systems after a system crash. SystemRescueCD is not intended to be used as a permanent operating system. It runs from a Live CD or...
  
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• Trinity Rescue Kit
  Trinity Rescue Kit
  Trinity Rescue Kit is a free command-line Live CD Linux distribution created especially for rescuing Windows PCs It is aimed specifically at offline operations for Windows and Linux systems such as rescue, repair, password resets and disk cloning...
  
  
• FOG
• ntfsclone - a utility in the package of ntfsprogs
• partclone
• TeraByte Image for Linux
• Redo Backup and Recovery
  Redo Backup and Recovery
  Redo Backup and Recovery is free backup and disaster recovery software. It is a bootable Linux CD image that starts up a nice GUI for running bare-metal backup and recovery on disk partitions...
  
  
• dd (Unix)
  Dd (Unix)
  In computing, dd is a common Unix program whose primary purpose is the low-level copying and conversion of raw data. According to the manual page for Version 7 Unix, it will "convert and copy a file". It is used to copy a specified number of bytes or blocks, performing on-the-fly byte order...
  
  

See also

• Comparison of disk cloning software
• List of remastering software
• Disk cloning
  Disk cloning
  Disk cloning is the process of copying the contents of one computer hard disk to another disk or to an "image" file. Often, the contents of the first disk are written to an image file as an intermediate step, and the second disk is loaded with the contents of the image...