I can't set the time on Rescuzilla. don't know the %codes....there must be a page showing how to do this somewhere. I burned rescuezilla to dvd. Backed up Linuxmint in 9 minutes flat. Easiest complete backup ever ! although there should be an easier GUI front for the backup.
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Last edit: dave duran 2020-07-04
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Rescuezilla v1.0.6.1 does not yet have an easy-to-use graphical method to modify the time. It's possible to use the command-line to set the time using the date utility, but this will be too difficult for many users. I expect many of those who want to change the time in Rescuezilla may actually really want to change the timezone, as Rescuezilla sets its timezone to UTC+0 (Greenwich Mean Time Zone).
It's worth noting that when Rescuezilla boots it reads the time from the hardware clock built in to a computer's motherboard. This leads to funny situations because on Windows that value is set and read using local time, and on standard Linux environments that hardware clock value is set and read as UTC+0, with the timezone only applied after. This difference causes standard Windows and Linux dualboot environments to not display time correctly without careful configuration. There's no standard solution to this Windows/Linux time display issue, and it's not possible to handle the situation through autodetection. To avoid adding to this situation, Rescuezilla itself does not set the motherboard hardware clock, but it does read and interpret it.
An additional consideration is all changes made to Rescuezilla itself disappear on reboot, because as of writing Rescuezilla does not yet offer a persistent environment. (I will eventually implement a persistent environment as part of task #8).
I will add NTP (Network Time Protocol), so that the time (but not timezone) is automatically retrieved over the internet. Rescuezilla should definitely provide a graphical ability to set the time and timezone, in addition to a graphical method to select a keyboard layout (task #91).
I have captured your timezone feature request as task #107. Due to other Rescuezilla development priorities it might be some time until I have completed this task, but it will eventually be completed!
although there should be an easier GUI front for the backup.
Can you elaborate on this? I already have a lot of idea on how to improve Rescuezilla's usability (task #6). What else would you like to see?
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thanks, i messed up by changing the first %P.....tried different letters,
went back and put in the original %P now I don't get the time. i get
pm 0800 pm or some such thing
.
i want it to show me : 07,04,2020 08:00am how do i do this?
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i want it to show me : 07,04,2020 08:00am how do i do this?
In a command line, running date +"%d,%m,%Y %I:%M %P" prints 05,07,2020 02:20 pm. You can read about these format sequences here. To make the Rescuezilla's taskbar clock widget show time in this format, simply select the item "Digital Clock" Settings and modify the Clock Format field with %d,%m,%Y %I:%M %P.
You can set the timezone with timedatectl list-timezones followed by eg, timedatectl set-timezone 'Australia/Adelaide'. On Rescuezilla this is currently reporting Access denied for some reason, but running timedatectl(without any arguments) still shows that the timezone was updated correctly.
As mentioned, Rescuezilla v1.0.6.1 does not yet support persistence, so any changes you make to the Rescuezilla environment will disappear when you reboot your machine. All this is clearly not very user-friendly, so developing a better approach to manage this will be done in Rescuezilla task #107.
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I have responded to you on Rescuezilla task #108. For now, this is OK, but in future please keep all support queries on this Sourceforge forum (create a new topic if required).
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well, i TRIED to get answers on the forum, and was told to come to YOU.
LOL.
they phrased it: contact the publisher or something like that....contact
the project maker.
creator.... so that's why i asked for help directly to you. where
exactly should i query on sourceforge? I didn't see Rescuezilla anywhere
there to contact you.
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Last edit: Rescuezilla 2020-07-06
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I am the person who responded to you on GitHub task #108. Sorry if there has been any confusion. My suggestion was that you create a new forum topic to help delineate the "setting the time" discussion from this restore issue.
As I wrote on that issue:
From what I can tell from your log files, I suspect Rescuezilla v1.0.6.1 is working correctly. On "Step 3: Select Drive to Restore", does the menu show you a list of 3 drives? Something like this:
Is your Linux Mint 20 partition labelled "CINNAMON" and 54.19 GB in size? If so, the correct menu item to select is Drive 1.
If this is indeed the issue you're experiencing, it's because Rescuezilla's menu can't list all the partitions in its compact menu. This would be an issue around usability, rather than broken functionality. I have ideas to improve some the usability/user-experience (eg, task #6) that I will be implementing in future versions of Rescuezilla.
Please confirm if this is indeed your issue.
By the way, you mentioned that you are testing Timeshift and luckyBackup. Please be aware that Rescuezilla currently overwrites the entire partition table when it does a restore. This is not an issue if you have not added or resized any partitions since your last backup (eg, since making your backup you have not installed a new operating system alongside your existing ones, or used the GParted tool to resize your partitions). However, this limitation makes Rescuezilla suitable for the backup/restore of whole hard drives, but a bit less suitable for individual partition backup/restore. Rescuezilla can still be used for the backup/restore of individual partitions (like your Linux Mint partition), but the enduser must not have modified the partition table by resizing partitions or installing new operating systems since last backup. Rescuezilla can still be used in the way you want to use it, but it's something to be aware of. I am improving upon this limitation for the next version of Rescuezilla (v1.0.7 which will be released in a few months).
Can you confirm that in Rescuezilla restore mode there are 3 drives listed as above?
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I can't set the time on Rescuzilla. don't know the %codes....there must be a page showing how to do this somewhere. I burned rescuezilla to dvd. Backed up Linuxmint in 9 minutes flat. Easiest complete backup ever ! although there should be an easier GUI front for the backup.
Last edit: dave duran 2020-07-04
Hi Dave,
Thanks for using Rescuezilla!
Rescuezilla v1.0.6.1 does not yet have an easy-to-use graphical method to modify the time. It's possible to use the command-line to set the time using the date utility, but this will be too difficult for many users. I expect many of those who want to change the time in Rescuezilla may actually really want to change the timezone, as Rescuezilla sets its timezone to UTC+0 (Greenwich Mean Time Zone).
It's worth noting that when Rescuezilla boots it reads the time from the hardware clock built in to a computer's motherboard. This leads to funny situations because on Windows that value is set and read using local time, and on standard Linux environments that hardware clock value is set and read as UTC+0, with the timezone only applied after. This difference causes standard Windows and Linux dualboot environments to not display time correctly without careful configuration. There's no standard solution to this Windows/Linux time display issue, and it's not possible to handle the situation through autodetection. To avoid adding to this situation, Rescuezilla itself does not set the motherboard hardware clock, but it does read and interpret it.
An additional consideration is all changes made to Rescuezilla itself disappear on reboot, because as of writing Rescuezilla does not yet offer a persistent environment. (I will eventually implement a persistent environment as part of task #8).
I will add NTP (Network Time Protocol), so that the time (but not timezone) is automatically retrieved over the internet. Rescuezilla should definitely provide a graphical ability to set the time and timezone, in addition to a graphical method to select a keyboard layout (task #91).
I have captured your timezone feature request as task #107. Due to other Rescuezilla development priorities it might be some time until I have completed this task, but it will eventually be completed!
Can you elaborate on this? I already have a lot of idea on how to improve Rescuezilla's usability (task #6). What else would you like to see?
Last edit: Rescuezilla 2020-07-05
thanks, i messed up by changing the first %P.....tried different letters,
went back and put in the original %P now I don't get the time. i get
pm 0800 pm or some such thing
.
i want it to show me : 07,04,2020 08:00am how do i do this?
(Edit by Rescuezilla: Removed Sourceforge's automatic quoting of my entire prior reply)
Last edit: Rescuezilla 2020-07-05
In a command line, running
date +"%d,%m,%Y %I:%M %P"prints05,07,2020 02:20 pm. You can read about these format sequences here. To make the Rescuezilla's taskbar clock widget show time in this format, simply select the item "Digital Clock" Settings and modify the Clock Format field with%d,%m,%Y %I:%M %P.You can set the timezone with
timedatectl list-timezonesfollowed by eg,timedatectl set-timezone 'Australia/Adelaide'. On Rescuezilla this is currently reporting Access denied for some reason, but runningtimedatectl(without any arguments) still shows that the timezone was updated correctly.As mentioned, Rescuezilla v1.0.6.1 does not yet support persistence, so any changes you make to the Rescuezilla environment will disappear when you reboot your machine. All this is clearly not very user-friendly, so developing a better approach to manage this will be done in Rescuezilla task #107.
thank you very much. But I seem to have a much bigger problem. I sent you
a message...so i won't repeat it here
except to say I included the text & log files. It does NOT show me the
destination drive/partition for linuxmint20.
i was able to recover it with TIMESHIFT AND LUCKYBACKUP.....but not
RESCUEZILLA.
(Edit by Rescuezilla: Removed Sourceforge's automatic quoting of my entire prior reply)
Last edit: Rescuezilla 2020-07-06
I have responded to you on Rescuezilla task #108. For now, this is OK, but in future please keep all support queries on this Sourceforge forum (create a new topic if required).
well, i TRIED to get answers on the forum, and was told to come to YOU.
LOL.
they phrased it: contact the publisher or something like that....contact
the project maker.
creator.... so that's why i asked for help directly to you. where
exactly should i query on sourceforge? I didn't see Rescuezilla anywhere
there to contact you.
(Edit by Rescuezilla: Removed Sourceforge's automatic quoting of my entire prior reply)
Last edit: Rescuezilla 2020-07-06
I am the person who responded to you on GitHub task #108. Sorry if there has been any confusion. My suggestion was that you create a new forum topic to help delineate the "setting the time" discussion from this restore issue.
As I wrote on that issue:
Can you confirm that in Rescuezilla restore mode there are 3 drives listed as above?
Thank you very much. yes, those were the 3 drives listed.
i will try to restore again, selecting drive 1 as you suggested.
Best regards and have a super good day. This will be the best , most badly
needed
restore program ever. Especially if it will list all partitions including
Linuxmint.
Dave
(Edit by Rescuezilla: Removed Sourceforge's automatic quoting of my entire prior reply)
Last edit: Rescuezilla 2020-07-07
Discussion continues on the "RESTORING RESCUEZILLA" support forum topic.