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Redo Rescue

{{Short description|Backup and disaster recovery software}}

{{Infobox software

| name = Redo Rescue

| logo =

| screenshot = 302px

| caption = Redo Rescue initial screen

| author =

| developer = Zebradots Software

| released =

| latest release version = 4.0.0

| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2021|10|09}}

| latest preview version =

| latest preview date =

| repo = {{url|https://github.com/redorescue/redorescue}}

| operating system = An included version of Linux (Live OS)

| language = English

| genre = Disaster recovery

| license = GNU General Public License

| website = {{url|http://redorescue.com}}

| discontinued = yes

}}

Redo Rescue, formerly Redo Backup and Recovery, is a free backup and disaster recovery software. It runs from a live CD, a bootable Linux CD image, features a GUI that is a front end to the Partclone command line utility, and is capable of bare-metal backup and recovery of disk partitions. It can use external hard drives and network shares.

After a long period of inactivity since 2012, the project has been resumed in 2020 adopting a shorter name: Redo Rescue.{{Citation |title=Redo Backup & Recovery |date=2022-04-09 |url=https://github.com/redobackup/redobackup |publisher=Redo Backup & Recovery |access-date=2022-08-13}}

Sadly, beginning in Nov 2024, the latest iso version (4.0.0) of Redo Rescue, when burned onto a USB, will not boot if run on a system with Windows and Secure Boot enabled. The issue is a revoked UEFI certificate in the underlying OS used by Redo Rescue. This will require the project developer to rebuild a version with a valid certificate by using an updated version of the underlying OS. The most recent release of Redo Rescue was in Sept 2022. This is listed as the Final Release. So anyone getting Windows updates cannot use this system backup software unless the developer is willing to issue another release or unless someone forks a new version to fix the problem. This is a very useful and well designed tool and well worth preserving.

In addition to backup software, the disk includes additional supporting programs such as:

Rescuezilla

In 2019, while the project was inactive, it was forkedhttps://github.com/rescuezilla/rescuezilla and many long-standing bugs were fixed,https://github.com/redobackup/redobackup to create Rescuezilla[https://rescuezilla.com Rescuezilla website] based on Debian, later based on Ubuntu.{{Cite web |last=Proven |first=Liam |title=System recovery solution Rescuezilla 2.4 released |url=https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/11/rescuezilla_24/ |access-date=2022-08-13 |website=www.theregister.com |language=en}}https://www.linux.org/threads/rescuezilla-system-recovery-tools.48828/https://linuxiac.com/rescuezilla-2-5-launches-with-enhanced-btrfs-support/https://9to5linux.com/rescuezilla-2-5-system-recovery-distro-is-out-now-based-on-ubuntu-24-04-lts Rescuezilla 2.5 is described as Clonezilla with a GUI.{{Cite web |last=Proven |first=Liam |title=

Put Rescuezilla 2.5 on a bootable key – before you need it: Sort of a FOSS Norton Ghost, now updated to Ubuntu 24.04 base |url=https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/16/rescuezilla_2_5/ |access-date= |website=theregister.com |language=en}}

See also

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External links

  • http://redorescue.com/
  • https://github.com/redobackup/redobackup
  • {{SourceForge |redobackup|Redo Rescue (redobackup)}}
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20180810074745/http://redobackup.org/ Archived 2018-08-10 version of the earlier official website]

::The earlier official website now redirects to an advertising site

  • {{DistroWatch|Redo|NAME=Redo Rescue}}

Category:Free system software

Category:Free backup software

Category:Free data recovery software

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