Andy Hardwick

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...

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...

Problem restoring logical partitions on MSDOS partition table

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...