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Clonezilla Live: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Clonezilla Live is a bootable system for disk and partition imaging and cloning, used for backing up and restoring a single machine, bare-metal recovery and system deployment. Where possible it copies only used blocks, supports file systems from Linux, Windows, macOS and BSD, works with MBR and GPT and boots on BIOS and UEFI machines. Images can be stored on local disks or on SSH, Samba, NFS or WebDAV servers and can be encrypted. A separate Server Edition (Clonezilla SE) supports multicast for mass deployment. You boot it from a USB stick or disc; nothing needs to be installed.

Clonezilla is free software under the GNU General Public Licence, version 2. It was developed by the Free Software Lab of Taiwan's National Center for High-Performance Computing (NCHC), together with other developers and contributors. Because it runs entirely from your own boot media and stores images where you choose, your data stays within your own infrastructure; the project describes no hosted service. Its checksum files are signed by the DRBL project.

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Sovereignty score
77 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-250
    Headquartered outside the EU (TW)
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    No hosting in Europe (OTHER)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-390
    Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
    Open source: low switching costs
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-665
    Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 14, 2026
Headquarters
TW (OTHER)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision
No — no adequacy decisionVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting
OTHERVerified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
Storage & Backup
Type
Product
Website
clonezilla.org ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Clonezilla Live

The European alternatives to Clonezilla Live come from our knowledge base of over 8,400 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Clonezilla Live

Clonezilla Live is headquartered in TW, outside the EU. Contracts and data therefore also fall under non-European law. The GDPR applies through contractual terms, but in a conflict with local legislation you have less certainty than with a European vendor.

Clonezilla Live hosts data outside the EU (OTHER). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

Clonezilla Live is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Clonezilla Live together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Clonezilla Live?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Clonezilla Live include Acronis, Atempo and Bacula Systems. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Clonezilla Live?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Clonezilla Live include Bacula Systems, Bareos and BorgBackup. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Clonezilla Live GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Clonezilla Live is headquartered in TW (OTHER) and hosts data in OTHER. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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