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 (GPL-3.0)
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- Linux
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Co-Pilot recommed this software. (dont normally use AI) And it`s excellent! Quick and easy to use, got me out of a bit of bother more than once now. Great Product
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great tool, highly recommended
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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.
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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.
Important things to know about Rescuezilla: . . . . . . 1. It doesn't do incremental/differential backups. Most free image backup programs like Veeam Community free allow this. This means that with Resuezilla, you will need to make a long full backup each time. . . . . 2. You can't work on either your Windows at the same time as using Rescuezilla, or your own installed LinuxOS at the same time, because the usb sets up a live OS environment of its own, locking out other OS. Veeam free, and likely others, will let you work on Windows while you do a backup.
I would rate Rescuezilla 3 stars, but to help keep the rating numbers modern, I'm going with 1 star. I generally use a cloning device and keep 2 clones. Cloning works, but I'm trying for quicker easier backups too, so I decided to try Rescuezilla again (seeing all the rave reviews). Got it booted, but upon research, Rescuezilla is rated slow compared to peers, and has 2 big downsides: 1. Rescuezilla doesn't do incremental/ differential backups. You would be doing a long, full backup each time. 2. You can't work on your own OS at the same time. Veeam free lets you work on Windows during backup.
Co-Pilot recommed this software. (dont normally use AI) And it`s excellent! Quick and easy to use, got me out of a bit of bother more than once now. Great Product
great tool, highly recommended
Rescuezilla has saved my bacon on multiple occasions. It is my go to for backing-up or cloning my data.
It just works!!!
It's brilliant. Simplifies Clonezilla with a nice GUI.
What I would like is an option of backing up an image is to verify it as well instead of let it do backup, leave it then come back and do verify image separately. Could be a dropdown option with what do you want to do after the process.