77xak t1_j9qesxt wrote
Reply to comment by 0ldfart in OpenSuperClone - A Powerful Disk Cloning Utility for Linux based on HDDSuperClone by LuvPastelPink
This program is a fork of HDDSuperClone, which was formerly a closed-source, commercial product. The dev decided to stop supporting it and released the source code sometime last year.
This is a niche tool designed specifically for cloning/imaging failing disks for data recovery purposes. It's not intended to be a general purpose cloning tool, using it with a healthy drive would accomplish nothing more than dd
. Clones are always sector-by-sector, the program doesn't interact with partitions or filesystems whatsoever.
WildFloorLamp t1_j9uq35a wrote
Yep, what he said. There is little use for this tool outside of a very small subset of data recovery somewhere between hardware imagers and ddrescue.
(I'm the maintainer of that particular fork)
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