- Updated the UEFI Secure Boot shim package to v1.58 after a Windows 11 update revoked older shims by incrementing the minimum "SBAT generation"(#525)
- This fixes any "SBAT self-check failed" errors to ensure Rescuezilla continues boot on UEFI Secure Boot enabled systems which require the latest "SBAT generation"
- This also fixes the "revoked UEFI bootloader" message warning when creating a bootable USB stick using Rufus
- Replaced Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic) and Ubuntu 22.10 (Lunar) builds with build based on Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular) for best support of new hardware
- Fixed querying drives with the Bionic 32-bit version, which broke since Rescuezilla v2.5 due to using the --merge feature introduced in util-linux v2.34 (#509, #531)
- Skips GPG check on Bionic 32-bit release to fix build (temporarily) until better solution identified (#538)
- Upgraded to latest partclone
v0.3.33(released mid-July 2024) from partclonev0.3.27(released October 2023) - Upgrades memtest86+ v5.31 to memtest86+ v7.00 (#540)
- Updated the build environment OS to Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble) from Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy) (#539), which was needed for the UEFI Secure Boot "SBAT" fix above
- Many existing translations updated, but also added:
- Persian/فارسی (fa-IR) (in-progress)
- Finnish/Suomi (fi-FI)
- Romanian/Rolână (ro-RO) (in-progress)
- Stops running the
ntfsfix --clear-dirtyon NTFS filesystems on the SOURCE DISK during backup and clone operations (#466)- Running this command (the only command in Rescuezilla that modifies the source disk) appears to be the root cause of a critical severity error that impacted a small number of (hibernated) Windows disks since the command was added in Rescuezilla v2.3 (2021-12-24) where creating a backup image or clone appears to cause some kind of corruption that can break the Windows boot with a Blue Screen of Death, possibly due to corruption in the Windows BCD (Boot Configuration Data)
- However, I still have not been able to reproduce the error in despite many hours of testing
- Removing this command will likely mean more 'hibernated NTFS disk' errors on backup or clone of Windows disks if not booting into Rescuezilla with the 'Restart' Start Menu command -- but removing the apparently dangerous command is obviously worthwhile
- Fixed 'stuck at 0%' bug for backup and cloning when only one partition is selected, bug introduced in v2.5.0 (#482)
- Fixed several user-interface disconnects where upon an error the user-interface correctly jumped to the Summary page but the backup, clone or restore operation mistakenly continues in background, causing a disconnect in what the user-interface shows compared to the operation that's occurring. The cases identified were:
- Upgraded to latest partclone
v0.3.32(released mid-July 2024) from partclonev0.3.27(released October 2023)- Examining the partclone projects commit log indicates key changes are:
- Several partclone errors cases now no longer return success upon failure
- Upgraded BTRFS support to BTRFS v6.8.1 from BTRFS v6.3.3
- Examining the partclone projects commit log indicates key changes are:
- Adds release based on Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble), Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic) and Ubuntu 23.04 (Lunar) for best support of new hardware
- Upgrades to latest partclone release
v0.3.27(released October 2023) fromv0.3.20(which was released in April 2022)- This should improve issues with BTRFS filesystems, as it supports BTRFS v6.3.3, rather than v5.11 (#393)
- Added experimental command-line interface (CLI) (#258)
- CLI should be considered EXPERIMENTAL and UNSTABLE, and behavior may change between versions without notice
- CLI only supports images created by Clonezilla and Rescuezilla (the other supported formats coming in future)
- CLI only supports backup, verify, restore and clone operations (mount and unmount operations coming in future)
- Integrated Rescuezilla into the automated integration test suite scripts, to hopefully enable faster project iteration
- Continue image scan after an error, so permission denied on irrelevant folders no longer block populating the image list
- Fixed issue causing backup of Linux md RAID devices containing MBR partition tables to fail (#448)
- Installs 'hashdeep' package as stop-gap command-line workaround for a specific user niche until Rescuezilla's UI handles it (#441)
- Fixed failing restore and clone operations when Rescuezilla v2.4.2 booted into Portuguese language, due to a minor typo (#438)
- Prevent laptops from sleeping when is lid closed (#427)
- Removes the Intel screen tearing fix introduced for v2.3 (2021-12-24), which should fix black screens on Intel graphics (#281)
- Introduces Ubuntu 22.10 (Kinetic) for best support of recent hardware, but leaves default build as Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy)
- Reintroduces a 32-bit (Intel i386) build, currently based on Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic) (#232) after it was temporarily dropped in Rescuezilla v2.0 (2020-10-14)
- Note: Partclone backwards compatibility is imperfect and 32-bit release uses old Ubuntu repository partclone version, not latest compiled version
- Fixes Backup mode's broken SSH port field introduced in v2.4 (#385)
- Installs lxappearance (#274), hexdump (bsdmainutils) (#382), flashrom (#388)
- Installed packages which improve ability to mount encrypted drives with pcmanfm file manager (#379)
- Replaces out-of-service Travis-CI build bot integration with GitHub Actions, for improved quality-control, and to assist Rescuezilla contributors
- Many existing translations updated, but also added:
- Albanian/Shqip (sq-AL) (Translation in-progress)
- Lithuanian/Lietuvių (lt-LT)
- Dutch/Nederlands (nl-NL)
- Fixed broken wifi after v2.4 broke it (due to a change in Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy leading to a key package not being installed (#366)
- Reintroduced ISO variant based on Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal), to assist users with AMD/Intel graphics
- AMD/Intel graphics still expected to be broken on "Jammy" variant except when using Graphical Fallback Mode (#351)
- Fixed image verification for German language (broken for all images in v2.4 German language mode, due to a typo in a translation string) (#352)
- Fixed similar fatal user-facing error messages caused by translation typos in the French, Danish and Catalan translations
- Add the font to fix display of the cross mark character "❌" in the image verification summary
- Fixed "stuck at 0%" progress bar when the destination is read-only (#363)
- Added protection to prevent other unexpected situations from leading to the same behavior
- Many existing translations updated, but also added:
- Thai/ภาษาไทย (th-TH)
- Replaces Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish) build with build based on Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy) for best support of new hardware
- Builds latest version of partclone from source code
v0.3.20, instead of OS package (#168, #309, #335)- This fixes "unsupported feature" error for users of compressed BTRFS filesystems (such as Fedora Workstation 33 and newer)
- Removed old partclone v0.2.43 used to maximize legacy Redo Backup compatibility (modern partclone still provides good backwards compatibility)
- Fixed execution of Clonezilla EFI NVRAM script to better correctly handle reboot on EFI systems (#348)
- Switched Firefox to using the Mozilla Team PPA repository, because new "snap" packaging is incompatible with Rescuezilla's build scripts (#364)
- Added ability to compress images using bzip2 algorithm (#290)
- Moved post-completion action to in-progress page (#316)
- This has caused at least 1 user an issue during cloning, which I'm yet unable to reproduce: #337
- Added ability to set custom SSH port (#336)
- Many existing translations updated, but also added:
- Arabic/ﺎﻠﻋﺮﺒﻳﺓ (ar-EG)
- Catalan/Català (ca-ES) (Translation in-progress)
- Czech/Čeština (cs-CZ) (Translation in-progress)
- Hungarian/Magyar (hu-HU) Translation in-progress)
- Slovak/Slovenčina (sk-SK) (Translation in-progress)
- Replaces Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish) build with build based on Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy) for best support of new hardware
- Builds latest version of partclone from source code
v0.3.20, instead of OS package (#168, #309, #335)- This fixes "unsupported feature" error for users of compressed BTRFS filesystems (such as Fedora Workstation 33 and newer)
- Removed old partclone v0.2.43 used to maximize legacy Redo Backup compatibility (modern partclone still provides good backwards compatibility)
- Switched Firefox to using the Mozilla Team PPA repository, because new "snap" packaging is still incompatible with Rescuezilla's "chroot-based" build scripts (#364)
KNOWN BUG: When cloning, user reported the auto-restart/auto-shutdown drop-down breaks the clone (#337). I tried in the "restore" mode on my environment with several images and it worked fine. This report is still being further investigated for the "clone" mode, but I didn't want it to block release of the Jammy upgrade.
- Added ability to compress images using bzip2 algorithm (#290)
- Moved post-completion action to in-progress page (#316)
- Added ability to set custom SSH port (#336)
- Many existing translations updated, but also added:
- Arabic/ﺎﻠﻋﺮﺒﻳﺓ (ar-EG) (translation now complete!)
- Catalan/Català (ca-ES) (Translation in-progress)
- Czech/Čeština (cs-CZ) (Translation in-progress)
- Hungarian/Magyar (hu-HU) Translation in-progress)
- Slovak/Slovenčina (sk-SK) (Translation in-progress)
- Fixed "Clone always stuck at 0%" issue introduced in v2.3.0 (#297)
- Added Korean/한국어 translation (ko-KR) (using Weblate)
- Significantly updated existing Italian/Italiano translation (it-IT) (using Weblate)
- Implemented image verification feature (#30)
- Adds "Rescue" option to ignore filesystem inconsistencies and bad sectors (#237)
- Replaces Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute) build with build based on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish) for best support of new hardware
- Added ability to restore and explore images created by "Apart" partclone GUI (#230)
- Improved image scanning to try to fix report of where some images not scanning except with Browse (#251)
- Fixed display of LVM shutdown error message (#250)
- Displayed serial number of drives in response to feedback (#227)
- Added lxappearance package to make it easy to set the dark theme (#275)
- Added ability to open file manager as root using right-click (#281)
- Added user-provided Intel Xorg conf file to hopefully stop screen tearing (#281)
- Fixed issue preventing restoring of images created by FSArchiver/qtfsarchiver (#255)
- Switched to "xdg-open" to launch file manager and web browser, rather than hardcoding pcmanfm and Firefox
- Added (or significantly updated) translations:
- 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) [translation in-progress]
- Dansk/Danish (da-DK)
- Added scrollbar to GRUB boot menu to handle increasing number of languages
- Removed 'localepurge' whitelist since number of translations is growing
- Added scrollbars to improve usability on low-resolution displays (#164)
- Fixed automatic maximization of Rescuezilla's main window (#164)
- Added Greek/Ελληνικά (el-GR) translation by tkatsageorgis (ευχαριστώ!) (#171)
- Added Japanese/日本語 (ja-JP) translation by AE720 (ありがとう！) (#176)
- Fixed incorrect filename pattern match that prevented booting after restoring MBR disks from some locations (#162)
- Removed "Are You Sure" prompt on Image Explorer (beta) unmount
- Fixed restoring dual-boot GRUB bootloader on MBR systems after bug was introduced in v2.1 (#155)
- Fixed display of error message if a partclone backup fails (#122)
- Skipped making second backup of Extended Boot Record using partclone to better match Clonezilla
- Removed partclone images on backup failure to better match Clonezilla's behavior
- Added "Are You Sure" prompt to Image Explorer (beta) so users understand the limitations
- Added Italian/Italiano (it-IT) translation by AlexTux87 (Grazie!) (#154)
- RESCUEZILLA IS OPEN FOR TRANSLATIONS!
- Added ‘Image Explorer’ (beta) to easily mount partclone images and extract files (#20)
- Currently based on
partclone-nbd - Rescuezilla intends on switching to using the more popular
partclone-utilsproject (which can also mountntfscloneimages) - Accessing files from uncompressed images (created by Clonezilla's Expert Mode) is extremely fast even for very large images
- Both Clonezilla and Rescuezilla currently default to gzip compression, which requires decompressing a lot of data and makes mounting and exploring images over 50GB too slow.
- A future release of Rescuezilla will change the default compression format so mounting large images is always fast and efficient
- Currently based on
- Switched primary release to new build based on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy) for improved NVidia graphics card support (#115)
- Fixed slow backup speed after mistakenly switching away from pigz multithreaded compression (#125)
- Fixed scan issue on some Redo Backup v0.9.8-v1.0.4, Rescuezilla v1.0.5-v1.0.6.1 images (#127)
- Added ability to cancel the image scan by closing the progress bar popup (#126)
- Displayed more progress details during drive query and image scan (#126)
- Ensured that (unlike Clonezilla), disks with >1024MB still have 1MB post-MBR gap backup (#131)
- Ensured all post-MBR gap always restored (whether 1MB or 1024MB), not just the first 256KB (#131)
- Fixed post-MBR gap backup being one 512-byte sector too large (#131)
- Fixed ability to specify the SMB/CIFS network share version field (#140)
- Fixed “dev-fs.list” image scanning errors with recent Clonezilla “testing” releases (#139)
- Ignored “sector-size” line in sfdisk partition table to maximize forward compatibility (#147)
- Considered failure to query optional drive geometry information as non-fatal error (#122)
- Ensured .info gets created for Microsoft Reserved Partitions to better match Clonezilla (#133)
- Fixed rounding error for drive/partition sizes, and removed python hurry.filesize library (#148)
- Improved handling of read-only destination drives during backup
- Added partclone-nbd v0.0.3 and partclone-utils v0.4.2 applications (#20)
- Added Brazilian Portuguese/Português brasileiro (pt-BR) translation by vinicioslc (obrigado!) (#128)
- Added Polish/Polski (pl-PL) translation by zeit439 (dzięki!) (#135)
- Switched to creating backups in Clonezilla format for full interoperability with Clonezilla: Rescuezilla is now a drop-in replacement to Clonezilla! In other words, backups created using Clonezilla can be restored using Rescuezilla, and vice versa :)
- Warning: Backups created with Rescuezilla v2.0 cannot be restored using earlier versions of Rescuezilla. Backups created with older versions of Rescuezilla can still of course be restored with v2.0
- Added ability to restore individual partitions, and optionally to not overwrite partition table (#46)
- Rewrote the Rescuezilla frontend in the Python3 programming language (#111, #49, #48)
- Added backup/restore confirmation and summary pages, back button (#6)
- Improved exit code handling and error messages (#29, #114), image selection (#109)
- Disabled Linux time sync to prevent hardware clock modification (thanks zebradots!) (#107)
- Added the ability to backup and restore software RAID (md) devices (#45)
- Added the ability to backup and restore SD card (mmcblk) devices (#95)
- Added filesystem-aware backup/restore of Linux Logical Volume Manager (LVM) (#44)
- RESCUEZILLA IS NOW OFFICIALLY OPEN FOR TRANSLATIONS!
- Improved shutdown speed on 64-bit which was being delayed by the file manager application (#87)
- Fixed French, German and Spanish keyboard layout not being selected (#99)
- Skipped “Please remove the installation medium, then press ENTER” after shutdown (#87)
- Fixed mousepad text editor’s shortcuts and file-associations (#98)
- Added grub2-common package for /usr/sbin/grub-install executable, which was intended for v1.0.6 (#50)
- Fixed version string indicating that the TravisCI build bot used non-pristine build directory (#102)
- Tweaked Rescuezilla wallpaper, splash screen, icon for aesthetics
- Added 64-bit version (this fixes the slow transfer rates issue on systems with >16GB RAM) (#3)
- Added support for booting on EFI-only machines (including with Secure Boot enabled) [64-bit only] (#1)
- Switched ISOLINUX bootloader to GRUB affecting all boot approaches: BIOS, EFI and CD-ROM
- Upgraded OS base to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal) from 18.04 LTS (Bionic) [64-bit only] (#51)
- Ubuntu 20.04 has dropped 32-bit, so Rescuezilla 32-bit remains based on Ubuntu 18.04
- Fixed issue preventing backup/restore of hard drives smaller than typically ~40 megabytes (#55)
- Fixed broken GRUB backup affecting some 1MiB-aligned filesystems on MBR-formatted disks, by copying all of “post-MBR gap” between MBR and first partition, not just typical 32KiB. (#50)
- Added GRUB packages to assist users who want to use Rescuezilla to perform a GRUB repair (#50)
- Fixed a “stuck at 0%” issue when paths contain certain special characters (#15)
- Removed false menu items such as “(Windows Boot Manager, )” by correctly merging items (#69)
- Removed restrictions which prevented users entering special characters in filenames and paths
- Fixed use of silver “Bluebird” theme, replacing the dull grey default used by v1.0.5/v1.0.5.1 (#48)
- Increased logging of internal commands for improved ability to track down reported bugs
- Writes the log file into destination directory (so it always persists between reboots) (#61)
- Improved the error message when a mount (of CIFS/SMB network share) fails
- Adds boot menu item to enter “BIOS” firmware setup [EFI-boot only]
- Replaced Redo Backup logo with new Rescuezilla logo (with “Tux” pengiun mascot) (#62)
- Switched ISO naming to eg, “rescuezilla-1.0.6-32bit.iso” from “redobackup-livecd-1.0.6.iso”
- Installs Rescuezilla frontend as a deb package, which increases flexibility of installation (#13)
- Moved scripts from tertiary File Hierarchy Standard (eg, /usr/local/sbin/rescuezilla) to secondary FHS (eg, /usr/sbin/rescuezilla) as the rationale that scripts were “developed by the system administrator of the system it is deployed on” is no longer valid when installing as a deb package
- Minimized divergence of Rescuezilla 32-bit and 64-bit package environment: (see below)
- Replaced Chromium Web Browser with Firefox to avoid Ubuntu 20.04 snap-based packaging as snaps cannot yet be installed in chroot-based environments (which the Rescuezilla build uses)
- Replaced unsupported ‘leafpad’ text editor with similarly lightweight ‘mousepad’ text editor, as 'leafpad' not available on Ubuntu 20.04
- Removed ‘maximus’ auto-maximize package (as behavior replaced by OpenBox config in v1.0.5)
- Added Patreon as a second Firefox homepage, to help achieve sustainable funding
- Added support for NVMe hard drives (#27)
- Fixed Redo Backup’s notorious “restore succeeded but all partitions unknown” bug (#36)
- Fixed restoring of backups created with several unofficial Redo Backup v1.0.4 updates
- Fixed “stuck at text login prompt unless using Safe Mode” issue (#25)
- Added version field for SMB/CIFS network drives for connecting to older shares (#22)
- Added retry unmount box to fix backing up of unmountable partitions (#16)
- Prevented Rescuezilla using swap partitions that are present (#37)
- Switched drive/partition list to sort by numeric not lexical ordering (1/2/3/10, not 1/10/2/3)
- Fixed switch to multithreaded ‘pigz’ for backup compression, which was intended for v1.0.5
- Ensured French Safe Mode boots into French-language with French keymap, not into English
- Added Spanish/Español (ES-es) translation by caralu74 (¡gracias!) (#28)
- Ensured that every French/German/Spanish translated string gets displayed to end-users
- Fixed an issue where some French/German/Spanish characters were not being rendered correctly
After 7 years without a release, the abandoned Redo Backup and Recovery application has been brought back from the dead by a new maintainer. This new fork is being developed under a new name, 'Rescuezilla'.
- Upgraded base to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic) from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise)
- Renamed project Rescuezilla but keeping ‘Redo’ for v1.0.5 (See ‘Project Announcements’ below)
- Switched to Hardware Enablement kernel for best support of new hardware (thanks OAM775!)
- Ensured official image bootable as both USB drive and CD (v1.0.4 was only bootable as a CD)
- Added SliM (Simple Login Manager) to fix boot sometimes failing to start graphical environment
- Switched to running the graphical session as unpriviliged user, for improved security
- Removed deprecated gksu (graphical frontend to su/sudo), which was never necessary
- Added PolicyKit policies to provide root privileges to certain applications (via pkexec)
- Removed deprecated system-config-lvm (graphical LVM editor)
- Replaced deprecated adeskbar (start menu) with lxpanel
- Configured lxpanel to closely match adeskbar’s look-and-feel
- Added yad dialog application and a custom graphical shutdown menu
- Removed drivereset from start menu as Rescuezilla maintainer does not have a test environment
- Replaced ‘maximus’ with openbox's builtin maximize settings, toggleable per-app
- Switched to ‘pigz’ multithreaded gzip based on OAM775’s old releases (thanks!)
- Fixed SMB/FTP passwords not working with special characters (thanks Dave Kipfer!)
- Imported patches from Michal Suchanek’s git repo from 2012 and 2015, as practical
- Added ability to restore partition to a drive smaller than the original (thanks Michal!)
- Added ability to configure default share name via /etc/rescuezilla/share (thanks Michal!)
- Added log file for each partition’s partclone operation (thanks Michal!)
- Stopped printing of SMB credentials when mounting drives (thanks Michal!)
- Stopped printing of FTP credentials when mounting drives
- Removed deprecated sfdisk ‘-x’ argument used to save extended partition information
- Replaced deprecated
sfdisk -Rcall withblockdev –rereadpt, to force reload partition info - Writes Rescuezilla version in the backup directory to help backwards compatibility
- Writes partition information during backup so Ubuntu 18.04 partclone can correctly restore
- Moved script from
/sbin/redobackupto/usr/local/sbin/rescuezillaas per File Hierarchy Standard - Added filesystem-aware backup/restore of btrfs, exfat, f2fs filesystems
- Fixed backup/restore of ufs, vmfs, jfs, hfs, reiserfs filesystems
- Add filesystem utilities so GParted can modify btrfs, hfs+, ufs, xfs filesystems
- Added GNU ddrescue command-line data recovery tool
- Added to right-click menu a ‘change screen resolution’ function
- Added to right-click menu an ‘open terminal here’ function
- Improved HiDPI display support by setting DPI to 125, not 96
- Improved HiDPI display support by increasing size of openbox titlebars
- Added release timestamp and version information to boot menu
- Added release timestamp to the status bar of the Redo Backup perl app
- Replaced buggy lxrandr (resolution changer), with arandr (graphical screen resolution/layout)
- Removed ‘nitrogen’ wallpaper manager application
- Configured PCManFM file manager for desktop management and wallpaper display
- Added desktop icons for important applications, mounted media
- Writes all of redobackup/drivereset output to a file in a desktop directory, for easier bug reporting
- Fixed pcmanfm Tools menu “Open Current Folder in Terminal” functionality
- Removed unnecessary theme configuration: lxappearance, gtk-theme-switcher2, obconf
- Added maketext localization framework to Redo Backup script, for easier translations
- Added French/Français translation adapted from louvetch’s old release (merci!)
- Added German/Deutsch translation adapted from chcatzsf’s old release (dankeschön!)
- Appended translations to boot menu (future release will make this scalable to more languages)
- ISO image grown to ~620MB mostly due to bloated Ubuntu, Chromium and language packs
- Base upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise)
- Percent complete now based on part sizes rather than total number of parts
- Windows now have titlebars to ease minimizing, maximizing and closing
- Time is now synced to localtime (hardware clock) after boot
- Widget theme changed to Bluebird for Gtk3 compatibility
- Now has a helpful beep to indicate when long processes are finished
- Added alsamixergui to enable mixer button on volume control
- Drive reset utility can now operate on multiple drives simultaneously
- Removed synaptic and boot-repair packages to reduce image size
- Restore now overwrites MBR and partition table upon completion
- Updated to latest partclone stable binaries
- Shorten dropdown menus with an ellipsis after certain character limit
- Ubuntu Maverick repos for updates and backports added; base upgraded
- Chromium browser launched with user data dir specified (to run as root)
- Show time elapsed when backup/restore operations are completed
- Added boot-repair tool for correcting any boot issues after restore
- Added wget utility for easily downloading files from the command line
- Show free space on destination drive while saving a backup
- Warn if less than 1GB free on backup destination drive
- Show an error if any of the partitions to restore do not exist
- Allow spaces in network shared folders
- LVM2 support added
- Fixed HFS+ bug that prevented the proper partclone tool from being called
- Minor changes to boot menu
- Safe mode boot option now prompts user to select a valid video mode
- Added the wodim package for command-line CD burning
- Password boxes now display hidden characters when typed in
- Increased boot delay for machines that are slow to display it
- Changed default boot option to load the system into RAM with "toram"
- Changed safe video mode to use "xforcevesa nomodeset"
- Updated the boot help text to provide info about Ubuntu boot options
- Removed enhanced security erase option in drive reset tool for reliability
- Added missing ntfs-3g package to allow saving backups to NTFS drives
- Version number can be found in bottom left after booting into GUI
- Major platform shift; building from Ubuntu rather than xPUD in the future
- Many base features not directly related to backup/restore have changed
- Added boot menu option to check CD media for defects
- Added performance enhancement section to /etc/smb.conf
- Updated fsarchiver and partclone binaries to latest stable versions
- Boot splash screen now displays version number for easy identification
- Added autorun.exe to help Windows users realize that a reboot is needed
- Changed color of UI background from orange to soft blue
- Copied VERSION and LICENSE files to root of CD-ROM for easier access
- Fixed: Backup required scanning net before specifying a share manually
- Fixed: Verification for drive reset can detect success or failure
- Fixed: Missing rsync CLI dependencies have been added to the live CD image
- Modified the bookmarks, labels and links in the UI
- Marked wireless features as unsupported in the UI (experimental only)
- Default boot option uses the fbdev driver in 1024x768 (16-bit) mode
- Removed unused boot modes (e.g. command line mode)
- Boot screen wait time reduced to 5 seconds
- All packages moved to the "core" image file for simplicity
- Added the grsync graphical utility for incremental file transfers
- Added the scp tool for secure transfer of files via SSH
- Added the very powerful gnome-disk-utility (palimpsest)
- Added support for encrypted volumes with cryptsetup
- Added GUI lshw-gtk tool to easily identify computer hardware components
- Added the baobab graphical disk usage tool
- Major speed improvements; backups and restores now 4x faster
- Standalone gzip binary allows the compression level to be specified
- Updated partclone to version 0.2.13
- Added the smartmontools "smartctl" CLI for monitoring drive health
- Back to using syslinux from the standard Ubuntu 9.10 repo version
- Only one isolinux.cfg/syslinux.cfg file to maintain
- New option to manually specify a shared folder or FTP server
- Allow retry if network mount fails or bad password is provided
- Warning: New backup naming convention allows dashes, not underscores
- Created /opt/backup to hold backup components (instead of using /opt/core)
- ISO CD-ROM label changed to "Redo Backup"
- Suppress umount error messages when they aren't really errors
- Added testdisk_static for recovering partition tables and MBRs
- Added rsync for copying files with a progress indicator
- Default boot option now works with any VESA-compatible video card
- Simplified boot menu focused on hardware support instead of languages
- Added F1 option to boot menu to display helpful options and information
- Cancel button kills any running backup/restore processes before exiting
- Hotplug scripts removed at boot time to stop automounting (for gparted)
- USB installer upgraded to syslinux-3.86, forcibly writes mbr.bin to device
- USB installer now creates FAT32 partition and filesystem instead of FAT16
- Optionally search for network shares on demand, rather than automatically
- Compatibility fixes and UI improvements to factory drive reset tool
- Added reiserfsprogs, reiser4progs and mcheck for more filesystem support
- Warning: Not interoperable with images from previous versions
- Updated partclone to version 0.2.12
- Save partclone error log to /partclone.log during each operation
- Split backup images into 2GB files rather than saving one giant file
- Added GZIP compression to reduce size of backup image
- Backup saves first 32768 bytes rather than 512 when imaging MBR
- Partition list saved to *.backup instead of *.redo
- Fixed missing nmap dependencies so that local FTP servers are found
- USB installation now detects if CD is in /dev/scd0 or /dev/sdc1
- Stronger warning before overwriting all data to destination drive
- Decision to abort restoration now aborts (continued either way before)
- Abort restore if destination drive is smaller than the original
- Do not allow partition being saved to be selected as the destination
- Warn when restoring to the same drive the backup image is being read from
- Minor graphic adjustment to title image
- Removed kernel boot option "quiet" so users can see it is booting
- Removed kernel boot option "noisapnp" (added by default in xPUD project)
- Splash screen implemented on USB stick installations
- Modified boot menu appearance and help text
- Initial release