There will be 2 hard drives containing exact same content after the clone process:įor a long run system/data protection job, backup is supposed to be used due to the advantages below:ġ. Nothing more is required before you can use the new hard drive. All contents on destination hard drive will be replaced with staffs from source hard drive. While clone is used to build a new identical hard drive. PBD image file created, recover/extract the image file can bring everything on source hard drive/partition back to an earlier time. This article offers the suggestions when to use them based on the explanation of the difference between the 2 options.Īfter a backup process, files and partitions on selected destination hard drive will be not affected except for an. Since disk/partition backup and clone options can be both used to operate an entire hard drive or create a system drive copy, most users are confused which one is better for a specific purpose (system backup, system migration and others).

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