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@shasheene shasheene released this 03 Jun 18:21
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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) (#47)
  • Added ability to restore and explore all virtual machine image formats supported by qemu-nbd (#192)
    (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 (#194)
    (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 (#170)
  • Implemented remaining Clonezilla image restore logic to improve handling of many corner cases: (#146)
    • Grows filesystem to fit partition size (but almost always filesystem size is already equal to partition size)
    • Runs filesystem check on all restored filesystems
    • Clears the NTFS volume dirty flag, for source during backup/clone and destination for restore/clone
    • Removes the udev MAC address records (if any) using Clonezilla script
    • Re-install the syslinux bootloader (if any) using Clonezilla script
    • Re-install the GRUB bootloader (if any) using Clonezilla script
    • Update initramfs (if any) using Clonezilla script
    • Relocates all NTFS filesystems using geometry from sfdisk or (if available) EDD (Enhanced Disk Device)
    • Restores LVM VG metadata with --force to match a recent Clonezilla patch referring to thin-pool LVs
    • Ensures each LVM VG metadata once is only restored once to support newer versions of vgcfgrestore
    • Updates EFI NVRAM for the boot device
  • Replaces Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy) build with build based on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute) for best support of new hardware
  • Added option to shutdown or reboot after operation completes successfully (#165)
  • Added ability to connect to NFS and SSH (SFTP) network shared folders (#81, #118)
  • Added ability to write a description for backup images (#137)
  • Added ability to make a screenshot by pressing Print Screen (#166)
  • Switched to using Weblate to manage translations:
  • Added translations:
    • Swedish/Svenska (sv-SE) (#186)
    • Turkish/Türkçe (tr-TR) (#89)
    • Chinese (Simplified)/中文(简体) (zh-CN) (#191)
    • Chinese (Traditional)/中文(繁體) (zh-Hant)
    • Norwegian Bokmål/Norsk Bokmål (nb-NO)
    • Russian/Русский (ru-RU) [translation in-progress]
    • Dansk/Danish (da-DK)

For full details available in the changelog.

Rescuezilla has a 6 monthly release cycle, so the next version should be released in November 2021. Though usually there are smaller releases before then for bug fixes and also translation updates.

Please consider giving a like on AlternativeTo so that more people can discover Rescuezilla! Thanks to the 31 people who support Rescuezilla by contributing $1/month on the crowdfunding website Patreon.

Compatibility

Rescuezilla creates backups that are fully compatible with the industry-standard Clonezilla tool. Rescuezilla works with images created by:

  • Clonezilla
  • Rescuezilla
  • Every virtual machine image format supported by the qemu-nbd utility. Eg,
    • VirtualBox’s VDI
    • VMWare’s VMDK
    • Qemu’s QCOW2
    • Hyper-V's VHDx
    • raw .dd/.img
    • ...and more!
  • Redo Rescue
  • Foxclone
  • Redo Backup and Recovery (v0.9.2 format, v0.9.3-v1.0.4 format and the old community updates)

Support for images created by FOG Project is still in development. Support for FSArchiver (restore only, not explore) will be fixed for Rescuezilla v2.3.

Bug advisories

Rescuezilla is thoroughly tested using Windows, Linux, and Mac environments. The following are known bugs in v2.2. Please regularly consult the following table in case new bugs are discovered.

Severity Tracking # Description Fixed in release
High #254 When making a backup of a Windows drive, some users report the error "Windows is hibernated, refused to mount" or "Error: read-only file system" and a failed backup. This is usually due to Windows' hibernate feature, with widely used workaround to select 'Restart' (not shutdown) from the Windows Start Menu before booting the Rescuezilla USB stick. But some users are reporting even after doing a full restart the problem is now persisting, with the only workaround for these users to disable hibernation entirely (which is definitely not a good solution). This issue is being investigated as part of task #254
Medium #257 Many users using the default 'Hirsute' version receive a blank screen on boot. On some machines the 'Graphical Fallback Mode' boot option resolves the issue, but on other machines the only alternative is to use the alternative 'Focal' version. Rescuezilla v2.3 will be based on Ubuntu 21.10 ("Impish") which is expected to resolve the issue with its more recent Linux kernel.
Low #168 Rescuezilla uses the version of partclone that’s available in the official Ubuntu repositories, so handling of the uncommon Btrfs filesystem is worse than Clonezilla which uses a more recent partclone version compiled from source. This only matters if you use a Btrfs filesystems using more recent features like "zstd transparent compression", which even many Btrfs filesystem users will not be using. A future version will compile partclone from source like Clonezilla rather than using the older Ubuntu repository versions. v2.5

There may be other bugs listed on the Rescuezilla v2.3 development page. If you encounter any additional bugs, please report them (ideally with logs) on the GitHub issues page (after searching for duplicate issues).

Checksums

sha256sum:
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ba25d4470f6d4cc111e67a4efe2cd71b3c5ef29b9469f426bb6cbbeca49318a5 rescuezilla-2.2-64bit.focal.iso

sha1sum:
952912e9409cbfd792112b3695f8c99df484850a rescuezilla-2.2-64bit.hirsute.iso
057ec8aaf8dc49a4d8349d19f95de0111c31f878 rescuezilla-2.2-64bit.focal.iso

md5sum:
bb38ed3e9cb1fc3810b9c467e37aa18e rescuezilla-2.2-64bit.hirsute.iso
1e01b7e7337ba6cfac6c8eb06795bb93 rescuezilla-2.2-64bit.focal.iso

Discussion and User Support

If you need support, start by checking the frequently asked questions, then proceed to the Rescuezilla forum.

Reviews and Testimonials

You can read reviews of Rescuezilla on AlternativeTo. Please consider writing a review and most importantly giving the project a like -- as of writing, Rescuezilla has 35 likes compared to Clonezilla's 417 likes, so fewer people are discovering Rescuezilla.

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