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Ubuntu Rescue Remix
Ubuntu Rescue Remix was a GNU/Linux live system which runs from CD or USB Flash device. It provides the data recovery specialist with a command-line interface environment equipped with some of the best free and open source data recovery and forensics tools available.
Status: Discontinued
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| 2024-05-13 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Rescuezilla 2.5 |
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Rescuezilla is a specialist Ubuntu-based distribution designed for system rescue tasks, including backups and system restoration. The project's latest release is version 2.5 which includes an edition based on Ubuntu 24.04. "Adds release based on Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble), Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic) and Ubuntu 23.04 (Lunar) for best support of new hardware. Upgrades to latest partclone release v0.3.27 (released October 2023) from v0.3.20 (which was released in April 2022). This should improve issues with BTRFS filesystems, as it supports BTRFS v6.3.3, rather than v5.11. Added experimental command-line interface (CLI): CLI should be considered EXPERIMENTAL and UNSTABLE, and behavior may change between versions without notice; CLI only supports images created by Clonezilla and Rescuezilla (the other supported formats coming in future); CLI only supports backup, verify, restore and clone operations (mount and unmount operations coming in future)." Additional details about the new version can be found in the project's release notes. Download (SHA256): rescuezilla-2.5-64bit.noble.iso (1,312MB, pkglist). |
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| Rescuezilla is a specialist Ubuntu-based distribution designed for system rescue tasks, including backups and system restoration. It was forked from the "Redo Backup & Rescue" project which was abandoned in 2012. Like its predecessor, it allows a "bare-metal restore" after any hardware failure directly from the live image. Some of the features include: works directly from the live CD/USB image; works with Linux, macOS and Windows; automatically searches a local area network for drives to backup to or restore from; recovers lost or deleted data files; includes configuration tools for managing disk and drives. Rescuezilla uses a simplified LXDE user interface.
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| 2023-03-06 |
Distribution Release: Rescuezilla 2.4.2 |
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Shasheen Ediriweera has announced the release of Rescuezilla 2.4.2, the latest version of the project's "Swiss army knife of system recovery" based on Ubuntu. The new release adds a variant based on Ubuntu 22.10 (besides the ones derived from Ubuntu's most recent long-term supported releases). From the changelog: "Removes the Intel screen tearing fix introduced in 2.3 which should fix black screens on Intel graphics; introduces Ubuntu 22.10 'Kinetic' for best support of recent hardware, but leaves default build as Ubuntu 22.04 'Jammy'; reintroduces a 32-bit (Intel i386) build, currently based on Ubuntu 18.04 'Bionic' after it was temporarily dropped in Rescuezilla 2.0; note - Partclone backwards compatibility is imperfect and 32-bit release uses an old Ubuntu repository Partclone version, not the latest compiled version; fixes Backup mode's broken SSH port field introduced in 2.4; installs lxappearance, hexdump (bsdmainutils), flashrom; installed packages which improve ability to mount encrypted drives with pcmanfm file manager; replaces out-of-service Travis-CI build bot integration with GitHub Actions for improved quality-control and to assist Rescuezilla contributors...." Download (SHA256): rescuezilla-2.4.2-32bit.bionic.iso (809MB), rescuezilla-2.4.2-64bit.focal.iso (999MB), rescuezilla-2.4.2-64bit.jammy.iso (1,147MB), rescuezilla-2.4.2-64bit.kinetic.iso (1,152MB, pkglist). |
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| 2022-08-08 |
Distribution Release: Rescuezilla 2.4 |
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Rescuezilla is a specialist Ubuntu-based distribution designed for system rescue tasks, including backups and system restoration. The project's latest release updates its Ubuntu base, improves support for Btrfs, and sidesteps the Firefox Snap package by using a personal package archive (PPA). "Replaces Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish) build with build based on Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy) for best support of new hardware. Builds latest version of partclone from source code v0.3.20, instead of OS package. This fixes 'unsupported feature' error for users of compressed BTRFS filesystems (such as Fedora Workstation 33 and newer). Removed old partclone v0.2.43 used to maximize legacy Redo Backup compatibility (modern partclone still provides good backwards compatibility). Fixed execution of Clonezilla EFI NVRAM script to better correctly handle reboot on EFI systems. Switched Firefox to using the Mozilla Team PPA repository, because new Snap packaging is incompatible with Rescuezilla's build scripts. Added ability to compress images using bzip2 algorithm." The project's release notes offer further details. Download (SHA256): rescuezilla-2.4-64bit.jammy.iso (1,085MB, pkglist). |
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| 2021-12-24 |
Distribution Release: Rescuezilla 2.3 |
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Rescuezilla is a specialist Ubuntu-based distribution designed for system rescue tasks. The project's latest release offers file image verification and an option to override filesystem errors. "The main additional feature for Rescuezilla v2.3 is basic image verification, as well as a new 'rescue' option to force filesystem errors to be ignored. Virtually all Partclone-based tools other than Clonezilla always ignore errors using Partclone's --force option, which I think is a bad idea. Some bugs and important feature requests from Rescuezilla v2.2 continue to remain yet-unaddressed, including unfortunately the highly requested 'persistent partition' feature as it still requires further changes and testing. Here is a partial list of what has changed in Rescuezilla v2.3: implemented image verification feature; added 'Rescue' option to ignore filesystem inconsistencies and bad sectors; replaced Ubuntu 21.04 'Hirsute' build with build based on Ubuntu 21.10 'Impish' for best support of new hardware; added ability to restore and explore images created by 'Apart Partclone GUI; improved image scanning; fixed display of LVM shutdown error message...." The release announcement offers further details. The distribution is presented in two editions, one based on Ubuntu 21.10 "Impish" and one based on 20.04 "Focal". Download (SHA256, pkglist): rescuezilla-2.3-64bit.impish.iso (998MB), rescuezilla-2.3-64bit.focal.iso (845MB). |
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| 2021-06-03 |
Distribution Release: Rescuezilla 2.2 |
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Rescuezilla is a specialist Ubuntu-based distribution designed for system rescue tasks, including backups and system restoration. The project's latest version is Rescuezilla 2.2 which introduces, among other features, support for working with virtual machine disks. "Flash the Rescuezilla image to a USB stick using balenaEtcher (this will erase all data on your USB stick). Reboot your PC and boot from USB. Rescuezilla v2.2 adds the highly-requested 'cloning' feature, support for virtual machine images and more. Here is a partial list of what's changed: Implemented cloning (direct 'device-to-device' mode). Added ability to restore and explore all virtual machine image formats supported by qemu-nbd. (VirtualBox's VDI, VMWare's VMDK, Qemu's QCOW2, HyperV's VHDx, raw .dd/.img and many more). Added ability to restore and explore images created by all remaining open-source imaging frontends. (Redo Rescue, Foxclone, FSArchiver, Redo v0.9.2 and very-early handling of FOG Project images). Added ability to customize compression format (gzip, zstandard, uncompressed) and compression level. Implemented remaining Clonezilla image restore logic to improve handling of many corner cases." Additional details can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (SHA256): rescuezilla-2.2-64bit.hirsute.iso (903MB, pkglist). |
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| 2020-12-12 |
Distribution Release: Rescuezilla 2.1 |
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Shasheen Ediriweera has announced the release of Rescuezilla 2.1, an updated version of the project's easy-to-use disk imaging application compatible with Clonezilla. The key new feature of this version is the ability to easily mount and explore Clonezilla images to extract files: "Rescuezilla 2.1 provides key bug fixes, performance improvements and it also introduces the highly-requested ability to easily extract files from backup images. Key changes: added 'Image Explorer' (beta) to easily mount Partclone images and to extract files; accessing files from uncompressed images (created by Clonezilla's Expert mode) is extremely fast even for very large images; both Clonezilla and Rescuezilla currently default to gzip compression, which requires decompressing a lot of data and makes mounting and exploring images over 50 GB too slow - a future release of Rescuezilla will change the default compression format so mounting large images is always fast and efficient.... Read the rest of the changelog for more details. There are two images available for download - an edition based on Ubuntu 20.04 "Focal" and another based on Ubuntu 20.10 "Groovy" (the project recommends using the "Groovy" build): rescuezilla-2.1-64bit.groovy.iso (844MB, pkglist), rescuezilla-2.1-64bit.focal.iso (795MB).
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| 2020-10-15 |
Distribution Release: Rescuezilla 2.0 |
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Shasheen Ediriweera has announced the release of Rescuezilla 2.0, a major new version of the fork of the "Redo Backup & Restore" distribution. This is the first 64-bit only release: "Rescuezilla 2.0 is a major upgrade. Key changes: switched to creating backups in Clonezilla format for full interoperability with Clonezilla - Rescuezilla is now a drop-in replacement to Clonezilla; backups created using Clonezilla can be restored using Rescuezilla and vice versa; warning - backups created with Rescuezilla 2.0 cannot be restored using earlier versions of Rescuezilla; backups created with older versions of Rescuezilla can still of course be restored with 2.0; added ability to restore individual partitions and optionally to not overwrite partition table; rewrote the Rescuezilla frontend in the Python 3 programming language; added backup/restore confirmation and summary pages, back button; improved exit code handling and error messages, image selection; disabled Linux time sync to prevent hardware clock modification; Added the ability to backup and restore software RAID (md) devices.... Read the full changelog for further information. Download: rescuezilla-2.0-64bit.iso (771MB). |
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| 2020-06-18 |
Distribution Release: Rescuezilla 1.0.6 |
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Shasheen Ediriweera has announced the release of Rescuezilla 1.0.6, developed by a project which has given a new life to the abandoned "Redo Backup & Restore" distribution. The 64-bit edition of Rescuezilla 1.0.6 is based on Ubuntu 20.04, while the 32-bit variant is still derived from Ubuntu 18.04; both flavours feature tools for backing up and rescuing individual files or complete operating systems through a simple user interface. From the changelog: "Version 1.0.6 (2020-06-17). Added 64-bit edition (this fixes the slow transfer rates issue on systems with more than 16GB of RAM); added support for booting on EFI-only machines (including with Secure Boot enabled, 64-bit only); switched ISOLINUX bootloader to GRUB affecting all boot approaches: BIOS, EFI and CD-ROM; upgraded OS base to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 'Focal' from 18.04 LTS 'Bionic' (64-bit only); Ubuntu 20.04 has dropped 32-bit edition, so Rescuezilla 32-bit remains based on Ubuntu 18.04; fixed issue preventing backup/restore of partitions smaller than typically 40MB; fixed broken GRUB backup affecting some 1MB-aligned file systems on MBR-formatted disks.... Please visit the project's home page at Rescuezilla.com for a complete list of features, screenshots and other useful information. Download links: rescuezilla-1.0.6-64bit.iso (757MB), rescuezilla-1.0.6-32bit.iso (667MB). |
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