Rescuezilla

Reader supplied reviews for Rescuezilla Average rating 7.2 from 9 review(s) Please selecting a rating in the range of 1-10. Please write at least a few sentences about the distribution while limiting your review to 4080 characters. What are your thoughts on Rescuezilla? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 2.4.22.4.12.31.0.6.11.0.5.1 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 2.4.1 Rating: 6 Date: 2022-09-22 Votes: 2 Well, Rescuezilla is getting better from version to version. Language selection again didn't work on my Ventoy stick, so I had to use Balena Etcher again. Unlike with v2.4 regular graphics settings brought me to a usable Desktop. I mounted my USB-HDD in order to store the image, but that resulted in a lot of error messages due to a bunch of Clonezilla images on that HDD, which are somehow incompatible to Rescuezilla. This is not a showstopper, but somewhat annoying ... Creating an image using zstd compression and checking the resulting image went well so far, but think that I can remember Clonezilla being much faster. I'm still missing the opportunity to create and check an image in only one step instead of two ... I didn't yet test the retore function of Rescuezilla. Yes, Rescuezilla seems to be on a good way, and I think it's much easier to use than Clonezilla, which, on the other hand, offers a lot more functions, at least for advanced users. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 2.4 Rating: 8 Date: 2022-08-20 Votes: 1 This software is GREAT! I had been using clonezilla for ages and although I was able to navigate it fine it still felt stiff and outdated. I found out about Rescuezilla from Distrotube and quickly loaded it on to my ventoy. It is seamless and quick, the rescuezilla software loaded instantly and was easy to understand. Successfully cloned a partition and a full drive for test purposes and it worked perfectly well, in fact I'm writing this review using an OS I cloned onto a USB from a smaller USB using Rescuezilla. My only issue is that there is no network discovery after turning on wifi. I enabled the wifi setting and attempted to manually add my network before giving up and moving on to other tests since internet wasn't my main goal, but it would be helpful for sure since I'd have access to troubleshooting resources while using the program. Otherwise everything else about it was fantastic, the desktop environment, the full OS suite, all very useful and all very promising! Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 2.4 Rating: 2 Date: 2022-08-09 Votes: 16 Unfortunately Rescuezilla is still alpha software. I created an USB thumbdrive using balenaEtcher. For testing Rescuezilla I used my Acer Aspire3 notebook, which runs quite well under Linux, e.g. with Ubuntu and Slackware. Rescuezilla booted into a totally black screen with regular graphics settings - but using the failsafe settings (nomodeset, xforcevesa) booted into a usable state. I wanted to create an image of an ext4 partition and save that image on my USB HDD. Since the rescuezilla program starts automatically after booting, it should be possible to use that USB drive for storing the image when this drive is plugged in while the rescuezilla app is already running, but it does not get recognized. Thus I had to quit the app and restart it manually. I created the image using zstd compression. After that I tested the verify function, but that ended reproducible in a quite strange error message printing a python backtrace. I wanted to google that error message, but it was impossible to access the internet via WIFI due to an issue with DBUS and wpa_supplicant. After that I gave up testing Rescuezilla ... Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 9 reader reviews of Rescuezilla...