OpenSuperClone

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

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

✨ Features

• Advanced drive cloning capability akin to that of ddrescue
• Virtual drive mode for targeted data extraction
• Direct AHCI and IDE capability to circumvent OS drivers completely
• USB relay control for automatic power cycling of drives

📋 Planned Changes

• Refactoring of codebase (get rid of -fcommon flag)
• Remove requirement for running as root
• Add configuration files and presets for settings

💾 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.

✏️ Changelog

OpenSuperClone 2.5 [Work-In-Progress]

• Implemented DKMS for driver installation
• OSCDriver 2.6.2: add support for kernel 5.19.12 to 6.1.1 (thanks to piernov)

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 suport for kernel 5.15 to 5.19.11 (thanks to piernov)
• Minor improvements to OSCViewer (color picker, minor graphical changes)

💵 Credits

All credit belongs to Scott Dwyer with his work on HDDSuperClone.

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/)

📄 License

This software is licensed under the GPLv2.