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
• USB Relay control for automatic drive powercycling

Planned Features

• Refactoring of codebase (get rid of -fcommon flag)
• Implement DKMS for driver (un-)installation
• Remove requirement for running as root
• Get completely rid of GTK2 code
• Add configuration files and presets for settings

Known Issues

• OSCViewer is extremely buggy in GTK3 and missing functionality from its GTK2 counterpart, it is recommended to build it with GTK2 for the time being

💾 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
• pkgconf
• libusb-dev
• libgtk-3-dev (or libgtk2.0-dev if building for GTK2)

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

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

# Run OSCViewer
$ ./release/bin/osscviewer

✏️ Changelog

OpenSuperClone 2.4 [Pre-Release]

• Cleanup of project files, removal of licensing related code
• Implemented CMake as build system
• Switched from GTK2 to GTK3
• Updated kernel driver to work on 5.15

💵 Credits

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

📄 License

This software is licensed under the GPLv2.