Foxclone is a Linux based image backup, restore and clone tool using a simple point and click interface. It takes images of the partitions on your hard drive (HDD) or solid-state drive (SSD) and stores them for later restoration. Image files are compressed to save space.
Foxclone is a front end for the terminal-based Partclone.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Backup and restore:
- GPT and MBR/legacy/MSDOS partition tables.
- FAT32, NTFS, and ext4 partitions.
- Unknown partition types.
- Encrypted partitions
- Clone:
- Direct drive to drive.
- To drive from a full backup.
- From a larger drive to a smaller drive.
There’s no support for RAID, LVM, Mac filesystems. It runs only on local drives and supports 64 bit systems only.
Website: foxclone.org
Support:
Developer: Andy Hardwick, Larry Hale
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Foxclone is written in Pascal. Learn Pascal with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| Disk Cloning Software | |
|---|---|
| GParted | Industrial-strength package for partition editing |
| Clonezilla | Perform system deployment, bare metal backup and recovery |
| Rescuezilla | Easy Backup, Recovery & Bare Metal Restore |
| FOG | A cloning / imaging solution / rescue suite |
| G4L | ncurses-based hard disk and partition imaging and cloning tool |
| Mondo Rescue | Reliable, disaster recovery solution |
| FSArchiver | Save the contents of a filesystem to a compressed archive file |
| PING | Partimage Is Not Ghost |
| Partclone | Save and restore used blocks on a partition |
| Redo Rescue | Simple backup and recovery solution |
| Foxclone | Image backup, restore and clone tool |
| qt-fsarchiver | Frontend for fsarchiver to save/restore partitions, folders and MBR/GPT |
| Partimage | Stores partitions to a image file |
| dcfldd | Enhanced version of dd |
| Apart GTK | Partclone GUI |
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