Is it capable of recognising disks set up as zfs mirrors? I have my OS on 256GB SSD while I have two large disks where I keep my data set up as zfs mirrors. I am not very well conversant with docker so everytime I need to do a critical update, I simply create a disk image of my OS drive onto the zfs mirror. Currently, i do it by booting into a live Ubuntu USB and running commands to make it recognise the zfs mirror before cloning the OS disk. If rescuezilla can do it by default, I will prefer it over live Ubuntu.
AFAIK it isn’t compatible with latest versions of clonezilla, and probably won’t be due to project being dead-ish, it might be better to use clonezilla directly.
What do you mean by the project being dead? I just checked, and it had a release in September as well as commits just 6hrs ago, at the time of posting this.
I also tend to fall back to Clonezilla. I don’t feel that the Rescuezilla GUI adds much.
Regarding compatibility both the latest Rescuezilla (since September 2024) and Clonezilla (Since July 2024) uses partclone 0.3.32 so they should once again be compatible. https://github.com/rescuezilla/rescuezilla/releases
Nothing wrong with it, I think that rescuezilla is trying just simplify the process for lesser tech-savvy people. If clonezilla works for you then continue using that.
But the TUI is simple. If people don’t know what they’re doing with the TUI, giving them colourful flashy buttons to click won’t help either. They should use Acronis or Macrium, then.
Insane take. The terminal is not for everyone or every task. I’m happy to use it for a lot of things but for example, I’m so happy gparted exists and I don’t have to do partitioning in a CLI
While you can do command line stuff with CloneZilla, I think what they’re referring to is the TEXT-based guided user interface, which doesn’t seem to differ much at all to the Rescuezilla GUI, which only looks marginally prettier. However, there’s a few other useful tools in there, and a desktop environments, so it’s still a bit nicer to use.
Is this the one that can scan a damaged hard drive to see where the flipled bit is, to fix that? I remember coming across that rescue disk program a few years ago.
No that’s either HDD Regenerator or SpinRite. Clonezilla is a sector-by-sector disk imaging program. (SpinRite et al are good for keeping old drives running for longer but if you want to do data recovery and really value your data, ddrescue or HDDSuperClone is what you want.)
You should take it to a data recovery specialist if the data is really really important but for lightly-damaged sectors, you want ddrescue (oldie but goodie) or HDDSuperClone (no longer developed) or OpenSuperClone (fork of HDDSuperClone, more actively developed).
You can combine some of these tools with commercial programs like dmde, UFS Explorer, or R-Studio - to target specific files for a quick result - but basically it’s best to get a full disk image off the bad drive onto another drive/image.
I used ddrescue for a failing drive of not critical stuff, and had great success. Lots of guides online. If I were doing it again though, I would NOT image the whole drive – just the partition of interest. That greatly simplifies running fsck on the image and mounting it to recover the files.
Yep, I guess it depends on how much data of interest is on the drive. You can hook it up to dmde with a ddrescue/OpenSuperClone-mounted drive, which can let you index the filesystem while it streams content to the backup image. It reads and remembers sectors already copied, and you can target specific files/folders so you don’t have to touch most of the drive.
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Is it capable of recognising disks set up as zfs mirrors? I have my OS on 256GB SSD while I have two large disks where I keep my data set up as zfs mirrors. I am not very well conversant with docker so everytime I need to do a critical update, I simply create a disk image of my OS drive onto the zfs mirror. Currently, i do it by booting into a live Ubuntu USB and running commands to make it recognise the zfs mirror before cloning the OS disk. If rescuezilla can do it by default, I will prefer it over live Ubuntu.
AFAIK it isn’t compatible with latest versions of clonezilla, and probably won’t be due to project being dead-ish, it might be better to use clonezilla directly.
What do you mean by the project being dead? I just checked, and it had a release in September as well as commits just 6hrs ago, at the time of posting this.
I also tend to fall back to Clonezilla. I don’t feel that the Rescuezilla GUI adds much.
Regarding compatibility both the latest Rescuezilla (since September 2024) and Clonezilla (Since July 2024) uses partclone 0.3.32 so they should once again be compatible.
https://github.com/rescuezilla/rescuezilla/releases
Yeah, what’s wrong with the original Clonezilla TUI?
Nothing wrong with it, I think that rescuezilla is trying just simplify the process for lesser tech-savvy people. If clonezilla works for you then continue using that.
But the TUI is simple. If people don’t know what they’re doing with the TUI, giving them colourful flashy buttons to click won’t help either. They should use Acronis or Macrium, then.
Insane take. The terminal is not for everyone or every task. I’m happy to use it for a lot of things but for example, I’m so happy gparted exists and I don’t have to do partitioning in a CLI
While you can do command line stuff with CloneZilla, I think what they’re referring to is the TEXT-based guided user interface, which doesn’t seem to differ much at all to the Rescuezilla GUI, which only looks marginally prettier. However, there’s a few other useful tools in there, and a desktop environments, so it’s still a bit nicer to use.
Is this the one that can scan a damaged hard drive to see where the flipled bit is, to fix that? I remember coming across that rescue disk program a few years ago.
No that’s either HDD Regenerator or SpinRite. Clonezilla is a sector-by-sector disk imaging program. (SpinRite et al are good for keeping old drives running for longer but if you want to do data recovery and really value your data, ddrescue or HDDSuperClone is what you want.)
Spinrite ftw
Is that like ddrescue?
Maybe… I have a couple of hard drives to rescue and I need to figure out how to approach it
You should take it to a data recovery specialist if the data is really really important but for lightly-damaged sectors, you want ddrescue (oldie but goodie) or HDDSuperClone (no longer developed) or OpenSuperClone (fork of HDDSuperClone, more actively developed).
You can combine some of these tools with commercial programs like dmde, UFS Explorer, or R-Studio - to target specific files for a quick result - but basically it’s best to get a full disk image off the bad drive onto another drive/image.
I used ddrescue for a failing drive of not critical stuff, and had great success. Lots of guides online. If I were doing it again though, I would NOT image the whole drive – just the partition of interest. That greatly simplifies running fsck on the image and mounting it to recover the files.
Yep, I guess it depends on how much data of interest is on the drive. You can hook it up to dmde with a ddrescue/OpenSuperClone-mounted drive, which can let you index the filesystem while it streams content to the backup image. It reads and remembers sectors already copied, and you can target specific files/folders so you don’t have to touch most of the drive.
I’ve used “getdataback” many times by Runtime software and it has worked the best for me over others I’ve tried.