HDDSuperClone - A new Linux hard drive cloning/imaging tool

[maximus]

And yet another thing about time. If I do go through with making it open source, it will take me some time to clean things up to be able to post the open source code. More damn time... but that will be closer to the final time needed to be spent.

[Lardman]

maximus, I was never happy that any of the software I wrote was ever finished to my satisfaction. You have an excellent product you (or anyone else technical) would like to use but it's not designed for end user resale.

My 2 cents FWIW.
The livecd is a controlled environment. Most end users aren't going to be running linux to do an independent install anyway.
The free version is too feature rich, a simple point and shoot phase 1&2 with default timing settings is usually more than ample for most drives. More settings, more problems - End users are generally clueless.
No interactive support on free versions, there are enough internet sites with people willing to help to distribute support load.
Trial (time limited) version -Far too much hassle for 20USD, users wanting extra features should just buy the pro version. (which I would reduce in price to the same as the retail recovery software market)
No one wants dongles and they're a pain as a developer - Just imagine trying to ship world wide.
The website is fine for the technical community but not so much for first time linux users who have no clue what to do when dropped at the desktop.

I hope you stick with it - it would be a shame to see the project fall away.

[maximus]

I have been thinking heavily about making it open source, and now have made the first commitment step. I have placed a free license on the purchase page of the website and disabled the purchase pages. Enjoy the free license, and feel free to donate. The source code will come in time, when I have the time to clean it up a bit and remove any sensitive info.

[dick]

This is very kind gesture towards the data recovery community.
Thank you!

[terminator2]

I have been thinking heavily about making it open source, and now have made the first commitment step. I have placed a free license on the purchase page of the website and disabled the purchase pages. Enjoy the free license, and feel free to donate. The source code will come in time, when I have the time to clean it up a bit and remove any sensitive info.

From all HDDGURU community members Thanks a ton.
We wish you all the best in your endeavour . Hope making hddsuperclone free , will not affect you in any way including but non limited to commercial view.

[Arch Stanton]

Well, I can see how people are all happy the peppy for not having to pay, but personally I regard this sad news.

[fzabkar]

Well, I can see how people are all happy the peppy for not having to pay, but personally I regard this sad news.

Likewise, although it is hoped that others will continue to develop the product once it becomes open source.

[maximus]

I can only hope that someone will in some way continue with the project. I am still working on cleaning up the source, but I am leaving as much as possible in addition to the main program code. While all account information will be removed, it will include all of the licensing code, including the PayPal licensing server code, so that someone could see how that was done (probably the only C PayPal IPN code publicly available, as I made it from scratch). It will also include the scripts for remastering an Ubuntu live CD, which could be helpful to some, as that is not an easy task. I will release this source on my website and Google Drive. I had an idea to post source on GitHub, but I think it would be too much work to clean it up enough for that. I think I will just post the source code my way and let anyone do what they want with it.

Also, I just updated all of the downloads (including the live CD) to have full pro version features unlocked without needing a license. There is no turning back now, I made it free free.

[DRUG]

This is very sad.
No one has the knowledge, coding skills and mindset to continue this.
I'm a proud full licensed user, would buy the software again even though I own all other hardware/software solutions on the market.

Yes, many people will be happy that the tool is free and open source, but this is how good ideas die and how jackasses change the layout and turn this into a comercial product...

Anyways, I'm looking forward to take a look at the licensing code

[maximus]

Source code is now available in the hddsuperclone website downloads area. Enjoy.

[fzabkar]

Many thanks.

[sourcerer]

Thanks a lot for making it Open-Source!
I have uploaded it to GitHub now, ported it to Ubuntu 21.10, it is available now on:
https://github.com/thesourcerer8/hddsuperclone

HDDSuperClone and HDDScViewer compile and run. I succeeded to revive HDDSuperTool again, since I believe that a GUI-less commandline tool is valuable for automation. The Kernel driver is ported to Linux 5.15 now. I haven't investigated the HDDLiveCD yet. I am planning to provide x64, ARM (e.g. Raspberry-Pi) and perhaps RISC-V binaries.

To all previous HDDSuper* users: Please let me know what you need from it, please test it, and let me know what you think about it.
Any issues you find in the Github version are likely my fault, please report them on Github or contact me directly.

[WildFloorLamp]

I may be a little late to the party but I aswell forked the HDDSuperClone code and made similar changes to what sourcerer has done in his repo.
I've put a little more focus on cleaning up, setting up a proper build system and linting the code rather than keeping all the functionality.
I'll just link this here in case anyone is interested in trying it. I'd love to add some of my changes to the other repo or vice-versa but at the moment the structure has already become a little too different to easily create some push requests without redoing most of it from scratch.
https://github.com/ISpillMyDrink/OpenSuperClone

[maximus]

I recently moved the http://www.hddsuperclone.com website back to Google Sites. The GoDaddy hosting just finally expired today and I read a post on reddit that said hddsuperclone was down. I have made a DNS change that should have it up again. The only issue anyone should have is any direct links with the /sitev1 in them will not work. If anyone needs to modify a direct link just remove the /sitev1. If anyone has any other problems with accessing http://www.hddsuperclone.com please let me know. The DNS records can be confusing.

[CSL PC]

I recently moved the http://www.hddsuperclone.com website back to Google Sites. The GoDaddy hosting just finally expired today and I read a post on reddit that said hddsuperclone was down. I have made a DNS change that should have it up again. The only issue anyone should have is any direct links with the /sitev1 in them will not work. If anyone needs to modify a direct link just remove the /sitev1. If anyone has any other problems with accessing http://www.hddsuperclone.com please let me know. The DNS records can be confusing.

I would like to thank you again for your great software, Made life easier for small business. I'm still using the older versions ISO for most of the cases. Sad that you had to end the development of this tool. I don't think that you needed to keep it up to date to support newer linux, for most of the users any old ISO would be enough . no one is using DeepSpar or rapidspar as an OS. it's meant to recover data from bad drives not to browse the web.
Wish you all the best

[labtech]

Based on the author's explanation, the devemopment has nothing to do with web browsing. It became problematic and very time consuming with libraries and drivers in making the tool bug free in relation to Linux evolvement.

[CSL PC]

I may be a little late to the party but I aswell forked the HDDSuperClone code and made similar changes to what sourcerer has done in his repo.
I've put a little more focus on cleaning up, setting up a proper build system and linting the code rather than keeping all the functionality.
I'll just link this here in case anyone is interested in trying it. I'd love to add some of my changes to the other repo or vice-versa but at the moment the structure has already become a little too different to easily create some push requests without redoing most of it from scratch.
https://github.com/ISpillMyDrink/OpenSuperClone

Tested it on Lubuntu 18.04 and Mint 19 both 64 bit, seems to be working the same.
which functionality was removed?
Thank you for taking your time.

[CSL PC]

Thanks a lot for making it Open-Source!
I have uploaded it to GitHub now, ported it to Ubuntu 21.10, it is available now on:
https://github.com/thesourcerer8/hddsuperclone

HDDSuperClone and HDDScViewer compile and run. I succeeded to revive HDDSuperTool again, since I believe that a GUI-less commandline tool is valuable for automation. The Kernel driver is ported to Linux 5.15 now. I haven't investigated the HDDLiveCD yet. I am planning to provide x64, ARM (e.g. Raspberry-Pi) and perhaps RISC-V binaries.

To all previous HDDSuper* users: Please let me know what you need from it, please test it, and let me know what you think about it.
Any issues you find in the Github version are likely my fault, please report them on Github or contact me directly.

I'll be happy to test it and help with project but I can't find the download link for the installer.

The best thing to try to add is some repair tools for other drives like Seagate, I think the cloner has more than enough features for most data recovery cases that require cloning.

Many thanks

[SOSdonnees]

If anyone has any other problems with accessing http://www.hddsuperclone.com please let me know. The DNS records can be confusing.

Although there is no problem accessing HDDSuperClone from on the "www." subdomain, and http:// redirecting to https://, I would suggest that you also redirect traffic from the root of the domain name, so that http://hddsuperclone.com would also redirect to the "www.".

Currently, your registrar (GoDaddy) is showing a page of its own for "http://hddsuperclone.com/" and there is no webpage available for "https://hddsuperclone.com/".

You can achieve the aforementioned redirection easily by placing an .htaccess file a the root of your website, with the following lines at its beginning.

If you want to redirect all traffic to the "www" subdomain and in "https://":

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# Force “www.hddsuperclone.com” instead of just “hddsuperclone.com”
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.hddsuperclone\.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) https://www.hddsuperclone.com/$1 [R=301,L]

If, on the contrary, you prefer removing the "www" subdomain and redirecting traffic to the root of your domain name, and in "https://":

Code:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} =off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://hddsuperclone.com/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.hddsuperclone.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://hddsuperclone.com/$1 [L,R=301]

In your case, would suggest the first of the two possible options, because less risky, depending on how you web host has been configured.

Best regards and many thanks for your gift to the DR community.