

A safer way is to have the clone reside on an external device or on another server. Sometimes the clone resides within the same PC, server, or laptop. There are various approaches and use cases for cloning.

Instead of having to reinstall everything from scratch, it is all provided rapidly by the clone. It includes the data, applications, system software and related files. If the drive crashes or fails, the clone gives you fast access to everything on it as it is a duplicate of the original.

Disk cloning software rose to prominence as an alternate way to back up and restore hard disk drives (HDDs) or solid state devices (SSDs).
