Rescuezilla - The Swiss Army Knife of System Recovery

Discussion in 'backup, imaging & disk mgmt' started by guest, Aug 8, 2022.

  1. guest

    guest Guest

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    Rescuezilla
    Website (GitHub)
    Download (GitHub)
    Features
    Code:
    • Simple graphical environment anyone can use
    • Creates backup images that are fully interoperable with the industry-standard Clonezilla
    • Supports images made by all known open-source imaging frontends, including Clonezilla (see 'compatibility' section of download page)
    • Also supports virtual machine images: VirtualBox (VDI), VMWare (VMDK), Hyper-V (VHDx), Qemu (QCOW2), raw (.dd, .img) and many more
    • Access files from within images (including virtual machine images) using 'Image Explorer (beta)'
    • Fully supports advanced environments such as Linux md RAID, LVM and no partition table (filesystem directly-on-disk)
    • Supports cloning (for direct 'device-to-device' mode without needing a third drive for temporary storage)
    • Boots from Live USB stick on any PC or Mac
    • Full system backup, bare metal recovery, partition editing, data protection, web browsing, and more
    • Extra tools for hard drive partitioning, factory reset, undeleting files
    • Web browser for downloading drivers, reading documentation
    • File explorer for copying and editing files even if system won't boot
    • Based on Ubuntu and partclone
    
    Rescuezilla 2.4 Swiss Army Knife of System Recovery Arrives Based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
    August 7, 2022
     
  2. guest

    guest Guest

    Rescuezilla: open source backup, restore and recovery environment
    August 8, 2022
     
  3. Mrkvonic

    Mrkvonic Linux Systems Expert

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    In your system's image. Behold, a review and tutorial of RescueZilla, a free, open-source, live-media system imaging and disk management toolbox based on CloneZilla, covering backup and restore of Windows 10 with two hard disks, image compression and verification, restore with or without partition table overwrite, some extras, other observations, and more. Take a look.

    https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/rescuezilla.html


    Cheers,
    Mrk
     
  4. JEAM

    JEAM Registered Member

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    Thank you for that RescueZilla review and tutorial. Just to make sure -- in order to create a system image with RescueZilla, the user needs to leave Linux and boot into a separate RescueZilla disk or live image, is that right?

    In Windows, we can create full system images with Macrium Reflect without having to shut the OS down. Is there anything for Linux (Ubuntu family) that works like Macrium that way?
     
  5. Mrkvonic

    Mrkvonic Linux Systems Expert

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    That's because Windows uses the shadow copy service, so you can do it in vivo. Technically, you could also image Linux without reboot, but it's not trivial.
    Mrk
     
  6. Joxx

    Joxx Registered Member

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    In MX-Linux there's a tool called Snapshot which allows to create an image within the OS.
    you can then use Live USB Maker (another tool) to create a bootable pen to either install the image on a different PC or restore it to the same one.
    Very handy.
     
  7. JEAM

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  8. guest

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    Rescuezilla 2.4.1 Released (September 5, 2022)
    Website (GitHub)
    Changelog
    Download (GitHub / Releases)
    If you have a blank screen, and will need to "Graphical Fallback Mode" from the Rescuezilla boot menu, or try the alternative ISO image based on Ubuntu 20.04 "Focal", which has slightly different video drivers. It doesn't occur on my NVidia graphics card systems, but will still occur Intel and AMD graphics systems.
    • Fixed broken wifi after v2.4 broke it (due to a change in Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy leading to a key package not being installed (#366)
    • Reintroduced ISO variant based on Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal), to assist users with AMD/Intel graphics
      • AMD/Intel graphics still expected to be broken on "Jammy" variant except when using Graphical Fallback Mode (#351)
    • Fixed image verification for German language (broken for all images in v2.4 German language mode, due to a typo in a translation string) (#352)
      • Fixed similar fatal user-facing error messages caused by translation typos in the French, Danish and Catalan translations
    • Add the font to fix display of the cross mark character "❌" in the image verification summary
    • Fixed "stuck at 0%" progress bar when the destination is read-only (#363)
      • Added protection to prevent other unexpected situations from leading to the same behavior
    • Many existing translations updated, but also added:
      • Thai/ภาษาไทย (th-TH)
    KNOWN POTENTIAL BUG: When cloning, the moved auto-restart/auto-shutdown drop-down (#337) may cause an issue. On my test environment, auto-restart on "clone" mode (and "restore" mode) works fine. Please let me know if you can reproduce this.
     
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