Rescuezilla 2.5 (x64) Boot ISO
Rescuezilla is an easy-to-use disk imaging application that’s fully compatible with Clonezilla — the industry-standard trusted by tens of millions. Yes, Rescuezilla is the Clonezilla GUI (graphical user interface) that you might have been looking for.
Rescuezilla is a cutting-edge, user-friendly software solution designed to simplify the process of backing up and restoring your data on Linux-based systems. This powerful tool offers a comprehensive set of features that enable users to create full system backups, clone disks, and recover lost data with ease and efficiency.
Rescuezilla stands out for its intuitive interface and straightforward workflow, making it accessible to users of all skill levels. Whether you are a novice user looking to safeguard your important files or a seasoned IT professional in need of a reliable backup solution, Rescuezilla provides the tools and functionality to meet your needs.
One of the key features of Rescuezilla is its ability to create full system backups, including the operating system, installed applications, and user data. This ensures that users can quickly restore their system to a previous state in the event of hardware failure, data corruption, or other unforeseen issues. The software also supports disk cloning, allowing users to create exact copies of their hard drives for easy migration or duplication.
In addition to its backup and cloning capabilities, Rescuezilla offers advanced data recovery options, enabling users to retrieve lost or deleted files from damaged or inaccessible drives. The software’s robust scanning algorithms and recovery tools make it possible to recover a wide range of file types, including documents, photos, videos, and more.
Disk imaging makes a backup of your computer’s hard drive which is managed as files stored on an external hard drive. If your hard drive fails, you can restore your disk image and within a few minutes all your documents and settings will be restored to the exact same state they were in when the last snapshot was taken.
Rescuezilla lets you perform backup, restore and recovery actions, even if you aren’t able to boot into your regular operating system. It does not matter if you use Windows, Mac or Linux. It doesn’t matter if you can’t even login. Download and write the ISO to a USB stick, and reboot your machine. Your computer will load a complete mini operating system with a point-and-click user interface into your computer’s memory without writing any information to your hard drive.
Rescuezilla is a fork of Redo Backup and Recovery (now called Redo Rescue) after it had been abandoned for 7 years.
More Features, Less Complex
Rescuezilla has the most features coupled with the simplest, most user-friendly interface:
- 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
- Supports images made by VirtualBox, VMWare, Qemu and all known open-source imaging frontends including Clonezilla!
- Easily mount any supported image and copy out your files (beta)
- Access your files even if you can’t log in
- Recover deleted pictures, documents, and other files
- Internet access with a full-featured browser
What’s NEW:
If you have a blank screen, try “Graphical Fallback Mode” from the Rescuezilla boot menu (after selecting a language). If that doesn’t work, try the alternative ISO image. Each variant has slightly different video drivers and Linux kernel versions, so often have slightly different graphics support.
- 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) fromv0.3.20(which was released in April 2022)- This should improve issues with BTRFS filesystems, as it supports BTRFS v6.3.3, rather than v5.11 (#393)
- Added experimental command-line interface (CLI) (#258)
- 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)
- Integrated Rescuezilla into the automated integration test suite scripts, to hopefully enable faster project iteration
- Continue image scan after an error, so permission denied on irrelevant folders no longer block populating the image list
- Fixed issue causing backup of Linux md RAID devices containing MBR partition tables to fail (#448)
- Installs ‘hashdeep’ package as stop-gap command-line workaround for a specific user niche until Rescuezilla’s UI handles it (#441)
- Fixed failing restore and clone operations when Rescuezilla v2.4.2 booted into Portuguese language, due to a minor typo (#438)
- Prevent laptops from sleeping when is lid closed (#427)
Details of all previous releases available in the changelog.
Compatibility
Rescuezilla creates backups that are fully compatible with the industry-standard Clonezilla tool. Rescuezilla works with images created by:
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- Clonezilla
- Rescuezilla
- Every virtual machine image format supported by the
qemu-nbdutility. Eg,- VirtualBox’s VDI
- VMWare’s VMDK
- Qemu’s QCOW2
- Hyper-V’s VHDx
- raw .dd/.img
- …and more!
- Redo Rescue
- Foxclone
- FOG Project (still in-development: only supports Windows MBR/GPT disks due to FOG Project’s more advanced image manipulation)
- FSArchiver (restore only, not explore)
- Apart GTK
- Redo Backup and Recovery (v0.9.2 format, v0.9.3-v1.0.4 format and the old community updates)