rear/rear
Relax-and-Recover - Linux bare metal disaster recovery and system migration solution (cfr. mksysb, ignite) observed · 2026-09-01
Health v2 · maintenance only
68/100
- Activity 100
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 5313
- days_rel: 566
- days_push: 2
- n_releases_24m: 1
Adoption not part of the score
1107 stars · 269 forks observed · 2026-09-01
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Relax-and-Recover (ReaR) is a Linux bare metal disaster recovery and system migration tool that creates bootable rescue images and automates storage recreation, backup restore, and bootloader installation on replacement hardware. It integrates with many built-in and commercial backup solutions and is the de facto standard DR framework on enterprise Linux.
Use cases
- recover a Linux server from a broken hard disk onto bare metal
- create a bootable USB rescue image for disaster recovery
- migrate a Linux system to new hardware
- integrate bare metal recovery with NetBackup, Bacula, or Bareos
- recreate disk partitions and filesystems after a failure
- set up an enterprise disaster recovery policy on RHEL or SLES
When to choose
- you need bare metal recovery for physical or virtual Linux machines
- you run enterprise Linux (RHEL, SLES) and need a standard DR framework
- you want to integrate existing backup software with automated recovery
- you need a setup-and-forget rescue image solution
When to avoid
- you need full backup management with scheduling and catalogs
- your primary systems are not Linux
- you only need simple file-level backups without recovery automation
Facets
cli-tool · maturity active
backup deployment developer-tools self-hosted operating-systems cli disaster-recovery bare-metal-restore system-migration rescue-image backup-integration devops linux
5 sources
- readme: https://github.com/rear/rear · fetched 2026-09-01 · 2565fc62f6c0
- homepage: http://relax-and-recover.org/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 81e76e80d1fd
- site_page: https://relax-and-recover.org/about · fetched 2026-08-29 · a38376ad40ef
- site_page: https://relax-and-recover.org/documentation · fetched 2026-08-29 · d7254a15a6dc
- site_page: https://relax-and-recover.org/documentation/getting-started · fetched 2026-08-29 · cae39d1f3446
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| rear/rear | main | 68 |
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