Activity for Andy Hardwick
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Andy Hardwick modified a comment on discussion Open Discussion
A little late to this party, but I was a long time user of redo. I was seeing software not updated since 2012 - it would not run on a lot of modern hardware, and a significant gap for those users who found clonezilla intimidating. And yes, redo had bugs, simple things like not copying grub on a legacy drive - found out the hard way, not designed as a clone tool. So, redo rescue, it should have come as no surprise that others filled the gap. Unknown to me, but in parallel, rescuezilla was developed...
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A little late to this party, but I was a long time user of redo. I was seeing software not updated since 2012 - it would not run on a lot of modern hardware, and a significant gap for those users who found clonezilla intimidating. And yes, redo had bugs, simple things like not copying grub on a legacy drive - found out the hard way, not designed as a clone tool. So, redo rescue, it should have come as no surprise that others filled the gap. Unknown to me, but in parallel, rescuezilla was developed...
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Problem restoring logical partitions on MSDOS partition table
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Redo is a backup tool not a clone tool. I have used it to clone a linux setup by backing up to a separate drive and then restoring the backup to the new drive. It didn't work because it didn't properly save grub. Had to use boot-repair to fix this and then all was okay. If you want to clone, better choices are clonezilla (linux, clunky UI) or macrium reflect (windows - you can create a boot USB stick). I like redo, but be aware it is abandonware - not updated since 2012 and the website has disap...
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