

Rescuezilla
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Free and straightforward disk cloning and imaging software that boots from a USB, supporting Windows, Mac, and Linux systems. Interoperable with Clonezilla and can recover and extract files. Includes partition editing, undeleting, and NTFS recovery. No installation needed.
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- Free • Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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- POX published news article about RescuezillaRescuezilla 2.5 is based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and brings improved BTRFS support and more
Rescuezilla, the widely used disk cloning and imaging software, has unveiled its 2.5 version, incor...
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Fast and compatible with older hardware. It has already helped me a lot.
- linuxopa reviewed Rescuezilla
Saved my ass several times after disk errors
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Saved my ass several times after disk errors
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- Updated Jan 27, 2025
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Full disclosure: I am the developer of Rescuezilla. If you think this review is biased, feel free to vote this review down.
Advanced users will often be coming from Clonezilla, which has a complicated text-based interface with a huge number of configuration options: you can go into Clonezilla's "Expert Mode" and tweak just about everything: the compression algorithm, compression level, imaging utility (eg, partclone vs partimage vs ntfsclone vs dd), and much more.
Some of these configuration options may be integrated into future versions of Rescuezilla, but even today Rescuezilla can still restore Clonezilla images created using these 'expert mode' options.
This means Rescuezilla is useful for advanced users, even if you choose not to use Rescuezilla to create your backup because it does not yet provide every configuration option you would like.
For typical home users looking for a way to create a hard drive image, Rescuezilla's simple graphical user-interface and Ubuntu Linux based live USB approach should work well for you. It's worth noting that hard drive imaging is definitely a very specialized task that's not necessarily the best approach for all users: it's worth researching whether a traditional file-based backup approach is more suitable for the specific problem you are looking to solve.
Please vote reviews up if they're useful, and consider writing your own review/testimonial. Also please give this project a "like" so more people can find it!
I need a full disk cloning, a tool for partitioning and deal with FSs, file rescue and to be bootable from an external drive (flash, hd or ssd) For Windows passwords and user issues i use Hiren´s Boot. For file recovering, test disk. Sometimes i use MHDD I also need a defragmentation tool (i use contig) and copying files/folders and even a complete tree. Rescuezilla is a great tool. The "advanced (or expert) mode" can be useful with these tools i cited and even what other users can talk about. The biggest thing you can do is this: listen to what we can say as users, in despite of their individual expertise.
Reply written May 26, 2023
So I tried RescueZilla and booting it from a flash drive worked just fine but I tried it on my MSI GT80 computer which has two SSD drives connected as a raid pair. They show up as two separate drives unlike Acronis software which in its Linux based rescue version shows only one drive. So I decided not to try RescueZilla and removed the usb flash drive and then the PC would not boot complaining about something wrong with secure boot and I had to run the recovery image to restore. So be careful with PCs having advanced hardware. It might damage it.
Hmm, so you booted Rescuezilla, didn't make any changes but had trouble rebooting?
That's very strange. Rescuezilla is a Linux-based live environment and shouldn't be making any changes to the host system unless the user requests it. Could you please provide more information on the configuration of your RAID drive? Is it hardware (configured in BIOS) or software RAID (configured in your operating system)? Which operating system do you normally use?
I have captured your bug report here: https://github.com/rescuezilla/rescuezilla/issues/208 and am investigating it at high priority.
Reply written Apr 13, 2021
Update June 2021: I haven't reproduced the issue you reported, but Rescuezilla v2.2 has really improved the Linux md RAID experience by overhauling the user-interface, and adding the ability to backup and restore drives without filesystems, which is common for RAID disks.
Rescuezilla is implementing the exact behavior of Clonezilla's 'savedisk' and 'saveparts', so with the interface improvements there shouldn't be any issues with Linux md RAID devices.
Reply written Jun 3, 2021
Fast and compatible with older hardware. It has already helped me a lot.
Saved my ass several times after disk errors
With Rescuezilla I created an image from an older laptop. Then as a test, successfully restored the image on a virtual machine. The process is really simple and worked flawless.
My plan was to clone my SSD (C:\ drive) and my HDD (D:\ drive) to an 11TB USB drive I partitioned for this purpose only to discover the Rescuezilla does NOT recognize USB drive partitions when cloning making this app completely useless for me.
I like this freeware :) Really great :)