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 driver mode for targeted data extraction
• Direct AHCI and IDE capability to circumvent OS drivers completely
• USB Relay control for automatic drive power-cycling

📋 Planned Changes

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

💾 Installation

Pre-built binaries aswell as Debian packages for OpenSuperClone can be found on the Release page.

Compiling from Source

💡 OpenSuperClone requires the following packages to be installed for a successful project build:

• gcc
• cmake
• pkg-config
• libusb-dev
• libgtk-3-dev
• gettext

# Build OpenSuperClone and OSCViewer for Release and install to ./Release
$ ./build.sh

# Run OpenSuperClone
$ sudo ./Release/bin/opensuperclone

# Run OSCViewer
$ ./Release/bin/oscviewer

✏️ Changelog

OpenSuperClone 2.4 [Pre-Release]

• Removal of licensing related code
• Implemented CMake as build system
• Switched from GTK2 to GTK3
• Replaced localization system with gettext
• Updated kernel driver to work on 5.15
• 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:

• GTK (https://www.gtk.org/)
• GLADE (https://glade.gnome.org/)
• libusb (https://libusb.info/)
• libintl (https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/)

📄 License

This software is licensed under the GPLv2.