Redo Backup and Recovery

Redo Backup and Recovery is an open source and completely free software project built around one of the most easy to use and powerful utilities for performing system backup and restore operation without too much fuss.

The OS is distributed as a minimal, dual-arch Live CD

The project is actually a minimal operating system derived from the world’s most popular distribution of Linux, Ubuntu, and built around the lightweight and minimal Openbox window manager as its default and only graphical desktop environment.

It is distributed as a minimal, dual-arch Live CD ISO image that supports both 32-bit (i386) and 64-bit (x86_64) computers. Keep in mind though, that you must write the ISO image to a CD disc or a USB thumb drive in order to boot it from the BIOS of a PC.

It runs directly from the bootable medium

Redo Backup and Recovery has been designed in such a way that it can’t be installed on a local disk drive, as it runs entirely from the bootable medium (CD or USB). From the boot menu, the user can start the live system with default boot options or in safe graphics mode, perform a system memory check, as well as to verify the integrity of the bootable medium (only if using a CD media).

Simple, traditional and easy to use interface

Its graphical interface is simple, allowing you to easily create a backup image of your computer or completely restore from an existing backup, and traditional, featuring a single-panel layout and some essential utilities, such as a file manager, terminal emulator, image viewer, text editor, web browser, disk utility, partition editor, usage analyzer, file recovery, bootable USB creator and hardware lister.

It can be used to save and restore both GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows operating systems, automatically discovers local network shares to upload the backups or restore from existing ones, as well as to access your files and recover deleted documents.

Backup made really simple

All things considered, Redo Backup and Recovery is a great tool for system administrators and end-users alike who are looking for a fast, reliable and very easy-to-use solution for backing up systems and recover damaged disk drives.

What is new in this release:

• 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 simultaneousl
• Removed synaptic and boot-repair packages to reduce image size

What is new in version 1.0.2:

• Spaces now allowed in network file share names.
• Warnings are included for the disk space free on the destination drive.
• An error is reported if restoration fails due to a nonexistent partition.
• Long lists of partitions are size-limited in the dropdown so they fit on the screen.
• The newest stable partclone binaries have been added to the live CD image.

What is new in version 0.9.9:

• Users can now save to NTFS-formatted drives

What is new in version 0.9.8:

• This release begins the planned conversion to an updated Ubuntu 10.10 live CD base, built from scratch, to provide more complete hardware support for more devices, a better upgrade path for future releases, and easier ability to customize the live CD or add features and patches.