Easy disk cloning and imaging | Rescuezilla (Clonezilla GUI)
rescuezilla.com
Free bare metal restore solution with graphical interface on a live CD. Point-and-click to backup and restore an entire computer. Bare metal disaster recovery restores all programs, documents and settings. GPL open source.

Hey folks, I wanted to share this tool I recently came across, called Rescuezilla - not seen it mentioned a lot here on Lemmy. It’s a neat little tool worth keeping on an usb-stick.

What is Rescuezilla?

Rescuezilla is a backup/recovery solution. It’s a Clonezilla GUI that’s fast, feature-packed and very easy-to-use, even for everyday computer users.

Main features:

  • Disk Imaging: Easily create full images of your hard drives or partitions for backup or migration.
  • Restoration: Quickly restore disk images to the original drive or a different one, making recovery a breeze.
  • Cross-Platform Support: Works with various operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and macOS.
  • Live Environment: Runs from a live USB or CD, so you can back up or restore your system without booting into your installed OS.
  • File System Support: Compatible with multiple file systems, making it versatile for different storage devices.

The full feature list: https://rescuezilla.com/features

  • DontNoodles@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Is it capable of recognising disks set up as zfs mirrors? I have my OS on 256GB SSD while I have two large disks where I keep my data set up as zfs mirrors. I am not very well conversant with docker so everytime I need to do a critical update, I simply create a disk image of my OS drive onto the zfs mirror. Currently, i do it by booting into a live Ubuntu USB and running commands to make it recognise the zfs mirror before cloning the OS disk. If rescuezilla can do it by default, I will prefer it over live Ubuntu.

  • Hello_there@fedia.io
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    9 days ago

    Is this the one that can scan a damaged hard drive to see where the flipled bit is, to fix that? I remember coming across that rescue disk program a few years ago.

        • Droolio@feddit.ukEnglish
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          9 days ago

          You should take it to a data recovery specialist if the data is really really important but for lightly-damaged sectors, you want ddrescue (oldie but goodie) or HDDSuperClone (no longer developed) or OpenSuperClone (fork of HDDSuperClone, more actively developed).

          You can combine some of these tools with commercial programs like dmde, UFS Explorer, or R-Studio - to target specific files for a quick result - but basically it’s best to get a full disk image off the bad drive onto another drive/image.

          • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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            9 days ago

            I used ddrescue for a failing drive of not critical stuff, and had great success. Lots of guides online. If I were doing it again though, I would NOT image the whole drive – just the partition of interest. That greatly simplifies running fsck on the image and mounting it to recover the files.

    • Droolio@feddit.ukEnglish
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      9 days ago

      No that’s either HDD Regenerator or SpinRite. Clonezilla is a sector-by-sector disk imaging program. (SpinRite et al are good for keeping old drives running for longer but if you want to do data recovery and really value your data, ddrescue or HDDSuperClone is what you want.)

  • nesc@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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    9 days ago

    AFAIK it isn’t compatible with latest versions of clonezilla, and probably won’t be due to project being dead-ish, it might be better to use clonezilla directly.

    • Sips'@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
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      9 days ago

      What do you mean by the project being dead? I just checked, and it had a release in September as well as commits just 6hrs ago, at the time of posting this.

        • Sips'@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
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          9 days ago

          Nothing wrong with it, I think that rescuezilla is trying just simplify the process for lesser tech-savvy people. If clonezilla works for you then continue using that.

          • mbirth@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            9 days ago

            But the TUI is simple. If people don’t know what they’re doing with the TUI, giving them colourful flashy buttons to click won’t help either. They should use Acronis or Macrium, then.

            • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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              9 days ago

              Insane take. The terminal is not for everyone or every task. I’m happy to use it for a lot of things but for example, I’m so happy gparted exists and I don’t have to do partitioning in a CLI

              • Droolio@feddit.ukEnglish
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                9 days ago

                While you can do command line stuff with CloneZilla, I think what they’re referring to is the TEXT-based guided user interface, which doesn’t seem to differ much at all to the Rescuezilla GUI, which only looks marginally prettier. However, there’s a few other useful tools in there, and a desktop environments, so it’s still a bit nicer to use.