OpenSuperClone

A powerful data recovery utility for Linux with many advanced features based on Scott Dwyer's HDDSuperClone.

✨ Features • 💾 Installation • 📖 Documentation • ✏️ Changelog • 💵 Credits • 📄 License

✨ Features

• Advanced drive cloning capability akin to that of ddrescue
• Virtual Disk Mode for targeted data extraction
• Direct AHCI/IDE capability to circumvent OS drivers
• USB Relay Control for automatic power cycling of drives
• Script Engine for advanced interaction with drives

📋 Planned Changes

See the Roadmap for a list of planned changes.

💾 Installation

Pre-built DEB and RPM packages for OpenSuperClone can be found on the Release page.

Instructions for installing OpenSuperClone from source can be found on the Wiki.

Alternatively to installing OpenSuperClone, a Linux Live ISO containing the project is now provided by xak77.

📖 Documentation

Documentation for OpenSuperClone can be found on the Wiki. Note that the Wiki is currently a work-in-progress and incomplete.

✏️ Changelog

OpenSuperClone 2.5.1 (Work-In-Progress)

• OSCDriver 2.6.8: add support up to kernel 6.18.0 (thanks to piernov)
• Add ability to save and load recovery settings, and change default settings for program start
• OSCViewer: performance improvements and improved UI

OpenSuperClone 2.5

• Implemented DKMS for driver installation
• OSCDriver 2.6.6: add support up to kernel 6.11.0 (thanks to piernov)
• Disabling the USB Mass Storage driver now also disables the USB Attached SCSI driver
• Various UI improvements including tooltips for most controls and improved SMART, Analysis, and Identify views
• Added some more known SMART attributes and Identify flags
• Increased the maximum amount of retry runs from 8 to 1000 (useful for solid state recovery)

OpenSuperClone 2.4.1

• Fixed a bug where the UI labels would show bogus strings

OpenSuperClone 2.4

• Removal of licensing related code
• Implemented CMake as build system
• Switched from GTK2 to GTK3
• Replaced localization system with gettext
• OSCDriver 2.6.1: add support up to kernel 5.19.11 (thanks to piernov)
• Minor improvements to OSCViewer (color picker, minor graphical changes)

💵 Credits

Credit belongs to Scott Dwyer for his excellent work on HDDSuperClone, and piernov for his work on updating the kernel module.

This project makes use of the following libraries/programs:

• GLADE (https://glade.gnome.org/)
• GTK (https://www.gtk.org/)
• libconfig (https://hyperrealm.github.io/libconfig/)
• libintl (https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/)
• libusb (https://libusb.info/)
• Font Awesome (https://fontawesome.com/)

📄 License

This software is licensed under the GPLv2.