A new version of Rescuezilla has been released. Rescuezilla is a distribution based on Ubuntu Linux for system recovery.

Rescuezilla v2.2

Download the 64-bit version of Rescuezilla: rescuezilla-2.2-64bit.hirsute.iso (recommended).

Flash the Rescuezilla image to a USB stick using balenaEtcher (this will erase all data on your USB stick). Reboot your PC and boot from USB.

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)
  • Dansk/Danish (da-DK)

For full details and details of previous releases 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.