# rescuezilla/rescuezilla

The Swiss Army Knife of System Recovery

Repository: https://github.com/rescuezilla/rescuezilla
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/rescuezilla
Language: Python
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Last push: 2026-05-16T19:35:44+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 75/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 82, release rhythm 52, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2538, "days_push": 109, "days_rel": 109, "gap_med": 195, "n_releases_24m": 4}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2700, forks 129 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:11.345059+00:00)

## What it is
Rescuezilla is a graphical disk cloning and imaging application, bootable from a USB stick, that is fully interoperable with Clonezilla. It provides an easy-to-use GUI for backing up, restoring, and cloning entire hard drives, including support for virtual machine image formats.

## Use cases
- create a full backup image of my hard drive
- clone a disk to a new drive without reinstalling
- restore a Clonezilla backup with a GUI
- recover a computer that won't boot using a rescue USB stick
- browse files inside a disk or VM image
- migrate a system to a new SSD

## When to choose
- you need whole-disk imaging or cloning rather than file-level backup
- you want a friendly GUI instead of Clonezilla's text-based interface
- you need to restore or create Clonezilla-compatible images
- you need to boot a rescue environment from USB on any PC or Mac

## When to avoid
- you only need to back up individual files or folders rather than whole disks
- you need scheduled, incremental file-based backups
- you need a tool that runs inside an already-installed OS rather than a bootable environment

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: backup, gui, file-system, developer-tools
- domain: self-hosted, operating-systems, files, cross-platform
- platform: cross-platform, self-hosted
- tags: disk-cloning, disk-imaging, clonezilla-compatible, rescue-usb, system-recovery, bootable-iso, linux

## Member repositories
- rescuezilla/rescuezilla (main) score 75

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:11.345059+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:16:05.227963+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/rescuezilla/rescuezilla (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:11.345059+00:00, sha beaaf7f0ae03)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.