Redo Backup and Recovery is free backup and disaster recovery software. It runs from a bootable Linux CD image, presently Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, features a GUI that is a front end to the Partclone command line utility, and is capable of bare-metal backup and recovery of disk partitions. It can use external hard drives and network shares.

In addition to backup software, the disk includes additional supporting programs such as:

• baobab
• chntpw
• cryptsetup
• drivereset
• Chromium
• fsarchiver
• geany
• gnome-disk-utility
• gparted
• grsync
• hdparm
• lshw-gtk
• partclone
• partimage
• photorec
• rsync
• scp
• smartctl
• ssh
• testdisk

How Does it Work?
Most backup and restore programs require your system to be up and running in order to restore. But what if you cannot boot into Windows? What if you have a nasty virus, and you can't even open Windows to try to restore it back to how it was?
Redo doesn't need Windows. Download and burn the ISO, place it in your CD-ROM drive, and reboot your machine. The system will load a complete mini operating system with a point-and-click user interface into your computer's memory, without writing any information to your hard drive. Then you will be able to perform backup, restore and recovery actions—guaranteed—even if you aren't able to boot into your regular operating system.
Redo Backup and Recovery is a GPLv3 Perl script built with a GTK2+ interface designed in Glade. It is simply a front end to partclone, which performs the actual backup and restore. The live CD is built on Ubuntu to provide a graphical user interface and unmodified binaries of each program, but the script will run on any Linux platform that has the required programs installed. The Perl source code for the backup script is contained on the live CD itself. And anyone running Ubuntu can build their own live CD from scratch by following our simple recipe.

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