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LuvPastelPink OP t1_j9j24jt wrote
Disclaimer: I am not a developer nor repo owner.
Yes, it can make images and clone disks.
Can't tell you anything regarding deploying images to smaller disks due to lack of experience with this particular use case, but it probably should be able to.
77xak t1_j9qesxt wrote
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)
patto2k t1_j9iuttw wrote
HDDSuperClone is great for imaging failing disks
0ldfart t1_j9ifd4s wrote
So... this is an application that can clone a slaved disk?
Does the app make images?
Can it deploy clone or images to a differently sized disk?
Do you plan to make a bootable system akin to clonezilla?