To use all of Rescuezilla's features, what size of USB stick is required

[Paul]

Hi,

Anyone know what size of USB is required to enable every feature of Rescuezilla to be used?

Thanks.

Kind regards,

Paul

PS: I am using Ventura 13.0.1, on a 2015 MacBook Pro.
And later I will also be using a PC.

[Rescuezilla]

A USB stick with 2GB is plenty. Any modern USB stick will work fine. The faster the better. Generally USB 3.0 sticks will offer better speeds than older USB 2.0 sticks (but this is not guaranteed).

The USB stick is for the Rescuezilla live environment. You'll need an external USB drive (or a network storage location) to hold drive images. The size of which depends on how many images you want to backup: if you have a 500GB internal drive on a Windows laptop containing 200GB of data, Rescuezilla will normally be able to save 200GB images due to being 'filesystem-aware', so that a 1000GB external USB drive may be able to hold 4-5 images.

But for a macOS system, Rescuezilla does not make 'fileystem-aware' images for APFS, so a 1000GB external drive may only hold 1 or 2 images. But see this post for some notes about MacBook backups using Rescuezilla (in short, not tested recently).

[Anonymous]

can you just partition the usb drive with 2gb part and a 198gb 2nd partition for images on same usb device ? also what does it need to be formated to ntfs? or fat