Redo Rescue
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Redo Rescue, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Redo Rescue's own pricing page, checked 12 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Redo Rescue | Free | Free and open source software · GNU GPLv3 |
The facts
Each one read from Redo Rescue's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Backup format
- Backups use a unified file format that supports notes, and the system can search for and detect shared network drives.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Bare metal
- Bare-metal recovery restores the master boot record and partition table, and selected parts can be restored selectively.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Boot support
- Redo Rescue supports UEFI Secure Boot and runs from an ISO that can be written to CD or USB.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Download
- The repository says the latest ISO image can be downloaded from SourceForge.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Included tools
- The image includes system tools and diagnostic programs, and the software provides error handling, low space warnings, and copyable detailed logs.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The project describes use cases for household Windows backups, classroom Linux machines, company laptops, and office server upgrades.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Licensing
- Redo Rescue is released under GNU GPLv3, while its distinctive logos and graphics are excluded from that license.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Redo Rescue is a live CD/USB system for creating and restoring system snapshots, including to a new blank drive.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Recovery
- It is intended to help recover from ransomware, viruses, deletions, hardware damage, and hackers.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Remote assistance
- The live system provides VNC access for remote assistance.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Restore limitation
- The project says it is designed to restore an image to the same system, and restoring to different hardware or changing disks or partitions may cause boot problems.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Security note
- By default, the live system logs in as root with the password “redo.”checked 12 Oct 2026
- Storage integrations
- It supports read and write access to Samba/CIFS shares, NFS shares, SSH filesystems, FTP servers, and various block devices.checked 12 Oct 2026
The company
- Founded
- 2010checked 28 Sep 2026
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