Rescuezilla 2.6.1

Rescuezilla is an easy-to-use disk cloning and 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. But Rescuezilla is more than a Clonezilla GUI! Disk imaging is the process of making a backup of your computer's hard drive which is managed as files stored on an external hard drive, and 'disk cloning' is the process of making a direct copy without needing a third drive for temporary storage. For many people, the alternative open-source tools such as Clonezilla are intimidating and difficult to use, so Rescuezilla provides an easy-to-use graphical environment like the leading commercial tools, Acronis True Image and Macrium Reflect. It's worth noting that hard drive imaging and cloning is a very specialized task that's not necessarily the best solution for every user: it's worth researching whether a traditional file-based backup approach is more suitable for the specific problem you are looking to solve. Rescuezilla can be booted on any PC or Mac from a USB stick, and has been carefully developed to be fully interoperable with the Clonezilla. This means Rescuezilla can restore backups created by Clonezilla, and backups created by Rescuezilla can be restored using Clonezilla! Rescuezilla was forked from Redo Backup and Recovery (now called Redo Rescue) because it had been abandoned for 7 years. Rescuezilla is

Tags clone backup recovery python shell
License GNU GPLv3
State initial

Recent Releases

2.6.118 Jul 2025 03:15 minor feature: Adds release based on Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky) for best support of new hardware. regression where swap partitions stayed unintendedly mounted causing restore and clone operations to destination disks containing Linux swap partitions to fail. Impacted Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic) and newer variants of Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble) and Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular) so on the newer variants since Rescuezilla v2.5 (2024-05-12). related (very minor) where the operating system time on these specific variants were not being initialized as intended due to 'hwclock' not being installed. Renabled Image Explorer (beta) after it was temporarily disabled in v2.6.0. Switched packaging the underlying "partclone-nbd" executable from the "checkinstall" wrapper to a more canonical packaging strategy using CMake's CPack (to avoid in 'checkinstall' script). Enabled Firefox on the Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular) release after it was temporarily excluded in v2.6.0. Switched to installing Firefox deb package from "packages.mozilla.org" rather than the "mozillateam" Ubuntu Personal Packaging Archive. The "mozillateam" Ubuntu Personal Packaging Archive now wraps snap-based packages like the official Ubuntu repositories, which remain incompatible with Rescuezilla's "chroot"-based build scripts. Added ability to specify NFS version: NFSv3, NFSv4 and the (existing default) of automatically negotiating down. Improved touchpad support for tap-to-click and multifinger gestures using libinput driver. Upgraded to latest partclone `0.3.37` (released June 2025) from partclone `0.3.33` (released December 2024). some GTK theme readability and consistency eg, around the taskbar by switching from Breeze to Arc-Darker. Added initial workaround to the "umount: /tmp/rescuezilla.ntfs/mount: target is busy" error that can block creating a Rescuezilla backup image or cloning on some machines, especially those that contain more than one NTFS partition. Extracted out a separate Portuguese (Brazillian) (pt_BR) tr
2.623 Mar 2025 13:54 major feature: Updated the UEFI Secure Boot shim package to v1.58 after a Windows 11 update revoked older shims by incrementing the minimum "SBAT generation". This any "SBAT self-check failed" errors to ensure Rescuezilla continues boot on UEFI Secure Boot enabled systems which require the latest "SBAT generation". This also the "revoked UEFI bootloader" message warning when creating a bootable USB stick using Rufus. Replaced Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic) and Ubuntu 22.10 (Lunar) builds with build based on Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular) for best support of new hardware. Temporarily does not include Mozilla Firefox on Oracular release until switched to new source. Image Explorer (beta) temporarily out-of-service across variants. querying drives with the Bionic 32-bit version, which broke since Rescuezilla v2.5 due to using the --merge feature introduced in util-linux v2.34. Skips GPG check on Bionic 32-bit release to build (temporarily) until better solution identified. Upgraded to latest partclone `v0.3.33` (released mid-July 2024) from partclone `v0.3.27` (released October 2023). Upgrades memtest86+ v5.31 to memtest86+ v7.00. Updated the build environment OS to Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble) from Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy), which was needed for the UEFI Secure Boot "SBAT" above. Many new and significantly updated translations submitted using Weblate: Persian/فارسی (fa-IR) (in-progress). Finnish/Suomi (fi-FI). Romanian/Rolână (ro-RO) (in-progress). Tamil/தம ழ (ta-IN). Norwegian Bokmål/Norsk Bokmål (nb-NO) (significantly updated). Japanese/日本語 (ja-JP) (significantly updated).