Release of Rescuezilla 2.6: A Fully Clonezilla-Compatible Tool for Disk Cloning and Imaging

On March 23, 2025, the release of Rescuezilla 2.6, a disk cloning and imaging solution fully compatible with Clonezilla, was announced. The project’s source code, primarily developed in Python, is available on GitHub under the GNU General Public License v3.0. The previous version of the project was released in September 2024.

Rescuezilla is a fork of Redo Backup and Recovery (now known as Redo Rescue), which had been abandoned for seven years. However, Rescuezilla represents more than just a simple fork; it has been carefully rebuilt from the ground up to ensure complete compliance with the Clonezilla industry standard.

The new version, Rescuezilla 2.6, features an updated base using Ubuntu 24.10 Oracular Oriole (previously it was based on Ubuntu 22.04), offering users enhanced hardware support and an updated UEFI Secure Boot package to accommodate Windows 11 machines.

«The update resolves the SBAT self-check failure errors, ensuring that Rescuezilla can boot on systems with UEFI Secure Boot that require the latest SBAT generation. It also addresses a warning about the revoked UEFI bootloader when creating a bootable USB drive with Rufus,» explained the project developers.

Under the hood, Rescuezilla 2.6 includes the partclone 0.3.33 cloning and partition recovery tool, along with the Memtest86+ 7.00 memory testing utility. Localization improvements have been made significantly throughout the project. The current version of Rescuezilla supports images created by Clonezilla, VirtualBox VDI, VMWare VMDK, Qemu QCOW2, Hyper-V VHDx, raw.dd/.img, Redo Rescue, Foxclone FOG Project, FSArchiver (for recovery only, not analysis), Apart GTK, and Redo Backup and Recovery.

On March 7, 2025, developer Steven Shiau introduced a new version of the free and open-source live boot system based on Debian for disk cloning, Clonezilla Live 3.2.1. Clonezilla Live is a bootable GNU/Linux distribution intended for direct use from a USB drive without the need to install anything on the computer.