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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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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
4.8 / 5 Avg rating (238)
364 likes
179comments

Features

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Properties

  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Disk Cloning
  2.  Disk Imaging
  3.  Disaster Recovery
  4.  Portable
  5.  No installation
  6.  Graphical User Interface
  7.  Integrated partitioning tools
  8.  Ad-free
  9.  Based on Ubuntu
  10.  Fast cloning
  11.  Integrated Web Browser
  12.  NTFS Partition Recovery
  13.  Works Offline
  14.  No Tracking
  15.  Recover Corrupted Files
  16.  No registration required
  17.  Photo Recovery
  18.  Encrypted Backup
  19.  Command line interface
  20.  Cloud Sync
  21.  Automatic Backup
  22.  Password Recovery
  23.  Dark Mode
  24.  Schedule Backup

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  • julthep rated Rescuezilla  
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  • adonisnr reviewed Rescuezilla  
    13 days ago

    Fast and compatible with older hardware. It has already helped me a lot.

  • linuxopa reviewed Rescuezilla  
    13 days ago

    Saved my ass several times after disk errors

  • adonisnr and zzpdexiaomi liked Rescuezilla
    13 days ago
  • linuxopa rated Rescuezilla  
    28 days ago

    Saved my ass several times after disk errors

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Rescuezilla information

  • Developed by

    Shasheen Ediriweera
  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.8 (238 ratings)
  • Alternatives

    38 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Catalan; Valencian
    • Greek
    • Spanish
    • French
    • Korean
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GitHub repository

  •  1,689 Stars
  •  79 Forks
  •  271 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jan 27, 2025 
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Our users have written 179 comments and reviews about Rescuezilla, and it has gotten 364 likes

Rescuezilla was added to AlternativeTo by Danilo_Venom on Jun 22, 2020 and this page was last updated Feb 13, 2025.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Comment summary: Rescuezilla is praised for its easy-to-use graphical interface, reliable performance, and compatibility with Clonezilla. Users appreciate its capability to restore Clonezilla images and perform disk cloning efficiently. However, some users have noted that it lacks advanced features available in Clonezilla and have faced issues with certain hardware configurations or disk cloning processes. Despite a few negative experiences, Rescuezilla is widely regarded as a user-friendly alternative to proprietary backup tools.
rescuezilla
  
Top positive commentOct 16, 2020
• Edited Feb 11, 2021

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!

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leocontiero

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

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edpaay
  
Top negative commentApr 12, 2021

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.

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rescuezilla

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

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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

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adonisnr
  
Positive commentFeb 2, 2025

Fast and compatible with older hardware. It has already helped me a lot.

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Detlef Bieritz
  
Positive commentJan 19, 2025
• Edited Jan 19, 2025

Saved my ass several times after disk errors

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PPB
  
Positive commentJan 4, 2025

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.

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dadstumpy
  
Negative commentDec 24, 2024

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.

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czdump
  
Positive commentDec 21, 2024

I like this freeware :) Really great :)

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What is Rescuezilla?

Rescuezilla is a free, easy-to-use hard drive disk cloning and imaging application that boots as a live USB. Rescuezilla is fully interoperable with Clonezilla icon Clonezilla . This means that backups created by Clonezilla can be restored with Rescuezilla, and vice versa.

Rescuezilla can mount and explore backup images to extract individual files. Rescuezilla is an extremely easy-to-use graphical environment for system rescue, including full system backup, bare metal recovery, partition editing, undeleting files, web browsing, and more.

Rescuezilla was forked from Redo Backup and Recovery in 2019 after a long period of inactivity since 2012. In 2020 the original project was resumed with the shorter name Redo Rescue icon Redo Rescue .

Rescuezilla can be booted on any PC or Mac from a USB stick, or CD, and uses the exact same reliable, battle-tested image format Clonezilla uses.

Features

Easy graphical user interface boots from USB in seconds No installation needed; runs from a USB stick or a CD-ROM Saves and restores Windows, Mac and Linux machines Fully interoperable with Clonezilla, the industry-standard trusted by tens of millions Also supports virtual machine images: VirtualBox (VDI), VMWare (VMDK), Hyper-V (VHDx), Qemu (QCOW2), raw (.dd, .img) and many more Access your files even if you can't log in Recover deleted pictures, documents, and other files Internet access with a full-featured browser to download drivers

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