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
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.
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.
I also tend to fall back to Clonezilla. I don’t feel that the Rescuezilla GUI adds much.
Regarding compatibility both the latest Rescuezilla (since September 2024) and Clonezilla (Since July 2024) uses partclone 0.3.32 so they should once again be compatible.
https://github.com/rescuezilla/rescuezilla/releasesYeah, what’s wrong with the original Clonezilla TUI?
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.
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.
