error downloading Rescuezilla

[Anonymous]

Tried yesterday and today, I can't download from github, whatever version, tried many times with different PC, different browser, different linux version. Download always fail at a few second to the end. THX

[Rescuezilla]

Rescuezilla's download ISO is hosted on GitHub which has weekly outages of a few hours and is overall a very unreliable website. There was an outage yesterday which is probably when you had the issue.

The suggestions from the post I wrote here are still reasonable:

I'm not sure what the best download manager to use on Windows is these days. The suggestions of Motrix and Aria2 below are Linux specific suggestions.

The Rescuezilla ISO images on the website are hosted on GitHub (https://github.com/rescuezilla/rescuezilla/releases), which should be fast and reliable.

There's a number of easy alternatives, but I recommend always validating the checksum file when using third-party hosts

You have a few options:
1. Try a download manager client program
2. Download Rescuezilla from a torrent managed by an 3rd party site
3. Download Rescuezilla from a torrent from a 3rd party mirror

Option 1: Download Manager

There are GUI download managers (Motrix appears open-source and popular). The advantage is they typically auto-resume after connection dropouts automatically, and also can download multiple parts of the file simultaneously to better utilize bandwidth.

I like the command-line tool aria2 (can be installed from Ubuntu using apt-get install aria2c) then, from a terminal type aria2 <URL>. The downloads are resumable, and support downloading multiple parts of the file at once but need more complex command-line options like aria2c -c -j 8 -x 8 -s 8 -k 1M <URL>. Quick and easy tool once you get the hang of it!

Option 2: BitTorrent mirror

Download the ".torrent' file from a BitTorrent tracker: https://linuxtracker.org/index.php?page=torrents&search=rescuezilla&category=0&active=1

(I recommend against using the link currently at https://fosstorrents.com/softwares/rescuezilla/ because it's currently 2.5.0, which is old)

Then open the torrent file in Bittorrent client (such as the simple cross-platform Transmission GTK) and it will download.

BitTorrent also automatically redownload pieces, and is designed to download in small chunks so is very resilient to unreliable connections.

Option 3: HTTP mirror

MajorGeeks hosts Rescuezilla ISO images:

• https://www.majorgeeks.com/mg/get/rescuezilla,1.html

Checksumming

I have validated the Rescuezilla v2.5.1 images linked above using the SHA256 checksum from the official GitHub page:
$ sha256sum -c SHA256SUM sha256sum: rescuezilla_2.5.1-1_all.deb: No such file or directory rescuezilla_2.5.1-1_all.deb: FAILED open or read sha256sum: rescuezilla-2.5.1-32bit.bionic.iso: No such file or directory rescuezilla-2.5.1-32bit.bionic.iso: FAILED open or read sha256sum: rescuezilla-2.5.1-64bit.focal.iso: No such file or directory rescuezilla-2.5.1-64bit.focal.iso: FAILED open or read sha256sum: rescuezilla-2.5.1-64bit.jammy.iso: No such file or directory rescuezilla-2.5.1-64bit.jammy.iso: FAILED open or read sha256sum: rescuezilla-2.5.1-64bit.lunar.iso: No such file or directory rescuezilla-2.5.1-64bit.lunar.iso: FAILED open or read sha256sum: rescuezilla-2.5.1-64bit.mantic.iso: No such file or directory rescuezilla-2.5.1-64bit.mantic.iso: FAILED open or read rescuezilla-2.5.1-64bit.noble.iso: OK sha256sum: WARNING: 6 listed files could not be read
(notice the "OK" for the noble ISO)

I always recommend validating the checksum for builds from third-party sources, or unreliable connections

[Anonymous]

Today I succeded download by github by mean of browser. By the way, I tried Motrix too, and found it very simple and useful. Many thanks for your answer, I really appreciate, it is clear complete, and easy.