Native Disk Cloning, Data Recovery & USB Imaging for QNAP NAS
Q-COPY is a native disk cloning, recovery and USB imaging application designed for QNAP NAS systems running QTS 6 and QuTS hero 6.
Powered by GNU ddrescue and a collection of integrated disk management utilities, Q-COPY provides a modern web interface for sector-by-sector disk duplication, damaged drive recovery, USB image creation and storage diagnostics.
Built specifically for QNAP, it runs natively without Docker or Entware, with a focus on data integrity, hardware protection and ease of use.
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Key Features
Disk Cloning & Data Recovery
- Sector-by-sector disk duplication using GNU ddrescue.
- Recovery of data from damaged or partially unreadable drives.
- Persistent rescue maps to resume interrupted operations.
- Detailed progress monitoring, transfer speeds and recovery statistics.
- Support for compatible USB and eligible internal drives.
- Strict source and destination identity verification.
USB Image Writing
- Write ISO and IMG disk images directly to USB devices.
- Upload images from your browser or browse shared folders on your NAS.
- SHA-256 image integrity verification.
- Up to three complete readback verification passes.
- Real-time progress reporting and cancellation controls.
- Automatic validation of USB capacity and sector alignment.
UEFI Bootable USB Preparation
- Prepare FAT32-based USB images from compatible ISO files.
- GPT and MBR partition scheme support.
- UEFI x86_64 and ARM64 image preparation.
- Support for ISO9660, Joliet and selected UDF structures.
- Image validation before writing to physical media.
Advanced Disk Diagnostics
- Integrated SMART health monitoring.
- Disk identification, capacity and hardware information.
- USB flash capacity testing with F3 utilities.
- EXT filesystem diagnostic and maintenance utilities.
- Detailed operation history and diagnostic log exports.
Designed for Data Safety
- Protection against accidental writes to mounted or active disks.
- RAID, ZFS, swap and system storage safeguards.
- Exclusive device access and repeated hardware identity checks.
- Explicit confirmation before destructive operations.
- Final data synchronization and integrity verification.
- Protected administrator sessions and security-conscious API design.
Modern QNAP Integration
Q-COPY features a responsive graphical interface designed to work within the QTS desktop environment.
- Clean, responsive dashboard with light and dark themes.
- Multilingual interface supporting 20 languages.
- Live operation progress and detailed status information.
- Integrated QNAP system event notifications.
- Secure localhost web service accessed through the QTS reverse proxy.
- Diagnostic exports for troubleshooting and technical support.
- Native, statically compiled executables with bundled utilities.
Compatibility
| Component | Support |
|---|---|
| Operating systems | QTS 6 / QuTS hero 6 |
| Architectures | x86_64 / ARM64 (aarch64) |
| Installation path | /opt/Q-COPY |
| Web interface | /q-copy/ |
| Internal service port | 29631 (localhost) |
| Container requirements | None |
| Core engine | GNU ddrescue |
| Interface languages | 20 |
Important Information
Q-COPY is designed for advanced storage operations. Disk cloning and USB image writing can permanently overwrite destination data.
Disk-to-disk cloning requires source and destination capacities to match exactly. USB image writing follows separate capacity and device eligibility rules.
UEFI image preparation supports selected formats and configurations; compatibility with every ISO or computer firmware is not guaranteed.
Development status: Q-COPY is currently a pre-release project. Software-level validation has been performed, but full qualification on physical QNAP hardware remains in progress. Initial testing should always use disposable drives and non-critical data.
Last update: 7 November 2026
