Rescuezilla

Reader supplied reviews for Rescuezilla Average rating 6.4 from 13 review(s) Please specify which version of the distribtion you are reviewing. Please select 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: -- 2.6.12.5.12.4.22.4.12.31.0.6.11.0.5.1 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: 2.6.1 Rating: 4 Date: 2025-07-18 Votes: 1 It's ok but there's much better alternatives to choose from. The fonts used have been mentioned by others, back in the day i'm sure they were a reasonable choice, but today they're difficult at modern resolutions. There's something up with using local drives, it doesn't allow copying to them. There's probably some jiggery-pokery using a terminal window but tbh, this far into the 21st century that seems a little archaic when the developer could no doubt fix this. Considering how long this has been knocking around, I would like to have seen some leaps forward in terms of developing the overall offering, but that doesn't seem to be happening. Maybe the dev thinks it's good enough as-is, or that if users find it difficult to deal with then it's over their head. Whichever the reason, I can't say anything very encouraging about it. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 2.4.2 Rating: 8 Date: 2024-07-01 Votes: 3 I think it is a good software; however it has two problems: 1. Fonts are really difficult to read on a resolution higher than Full HD 2. When you explore images, you can't copy files to other mounted hard drives or SSDs. It says that the permission was denied. There is a way of fixing point 2. though: you have to minimize the GUI (do not close it; otherwise your image will be unmounted), then you have to run a terminal and start the file explorer, from which I don't recall the name right now, then you will be able to copy the from the image explorer to your media. So, I guess that the file explorer is ran as a normal user and that's why it is not able to copy the files. As I said, I don't recall the name of the file explorer, but you can see it on the desktop; just type that name (all lowercase) and then it will open from the terminal. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 2.5 Rating: 1 Date: 2024-05-14 Votes: 8 Last time Rescuezilla got 6 points from me (v.2.4.1), this time no more than 1 point. What has happened? Booting from a Ventoy-Stick worked - good! Unfortunately I couldn't find any way to choose a different screen resolution before booting. On my notebook this ended with hardly readable fonts - bad! In the menu I found arandr and with some difficulties I was able to choose a suitable resolution. After that I tried to create a small image via the "Backup" button. I wanted to make an image of the EFI partition (FAT32), the first GPT partition on my NVME-SSD, compressed with zstandard (default compression level). I could create an empty directory on my USB-HDD where the image should be stored. Finally I wanted to start the backup process, but all buttons in the last step were greyed out. I had to kill the backup GUI and took a look for a logfile or similar, but without any success - very, very bad! Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 13 reader reviews of Rescuezilla...