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Old 06-04-2021, 09:09 AM   #1
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Rescuezilla 2.2 Released!


Guys,Rescuezilla 2.2 has been officially released! Rescuezilla is my fave backup/recovery software! I love it!

Unfortunately, we don't have high-speed internet service, so I use my cell phone as a HotSpot to browse the web. I DID try to download the Rescuezilla 2.2 .iso file, but the estimated time to download was over 2 hours!

Can someone lend a fellow forum member a hand by downloading Rescuezilla 2.2 (rescuezilla-2.2-64bit.hirsute.iso) and emailing it to me)?

Thanks, guys!

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Old 06-04-2021, 02:15 PM   #2
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Stop the music!

Over on the Linux Mint Forum, while folks are getting startup errors, Rescuezilla 2.2 does, finally, boot.

I'm sticking with the previous version, 2.1.3; it works great - and NO ERRORS!

Thanks, guys!
 
Old 06-04-2021, 10:52 PM   #3
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Hi FenderGuy,

If you're having trouble booting the default Rescuezilla v2.2 ISO image based on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute) [21.04 = April 2021], I suggest you try the alternative Rescuezilla v2.2 ISO image based on the long-term support Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal).

You can find the download to the Focal image on the GitHub releases page.

The default Rescuezilla v2.2 ISO image has been upgraded to Hirsute from the previous Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy) (20.10 = October 2020). This was to provide better support for hardware released in the past 6 months, but clearly some people are finding the base Ubuntu operating system from earlier releases more reliable for their hardware

It's highly recommend you upgrade from Rescuezilla v2.1.3 to Rescuezilla v2.2, because the amount of improvements and bug fixes to the Rescuezilla program itself is huge.

Please let me know how you go. I've spend a lot of time on Rescuezilla v2.2 and it would be very sad if people stick to Rescuezilla v2.1.3 because the alternative Focal release wasn't made clear enough!
 
Old 06-04-2021, 11:30 PM   #4
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Always nice to hear from people developing tools. Thanks for your efforts - been more than a while since I felt a need for clonezilla, but will add it to my maybe-to-look-at list. The file explorer would make it worthwhile by itself.
 
Old 06-05-2021, 01:16 PM   #5
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I would greatly appreciate if someone could download/email me a copy of Rescuezilla 2.2 (64-bit, Focal ISO) and its corresponding checksum file. My email addy is in my profile.

Unfortunately, my current internet access is via my Android phone and its HotSpot connection. :roll:

Thanks, guys!
 
Old 06-05-2021, 03:07 PM   #6
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Er... what do you think someone emailing you an 805MB file is going to do that downloading it yourself doesn't do?

 
Old 06-05-2021, 03:41 PM   #7
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I doubt if your mailbox will hold 805MB either.

https://github.com/rescuezilla/rescu...it.hirsute.iso

https://github.com/rescuezilla/rescu...4bit.focal.iso

Checksums
https://github.com/rescuezilla/rescu...leases/tag/2.2

Source
https://github.com/rescuezilla/rescu...ags/2.2.tar.gz
 
Old 06-05-2021, 07:43 PM   #8
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Er... what do you think someone emailing you an 805MB file is going to do that downloading it yourself doesn't do?
Perhaps you missed it, boughtonp. My internet access is via my Android phone's HotSpot. I tried to download the files several times, and each time, the estimated time to download was 2+ hours - and that's contingent upon my connection not dropping! So, please, excuse me for bothering you with my trivial request.
 
Old 06-05-2021, 08:42 PM   #9
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FenderGuy, what you're really looking for is called "Download Manager". It enables automatically handles resumption of partially downloaded files when using unreliable internet connections.

I used to used Free Download Manager with great success. A download manager is usually faster as connects to the file using multiple simultaneous connections, so it will utilizes more of your internet bandwidth.

I haven't used Free Download Manager in many years, but it still seems pretty popular. For what it's worth, these days I personally use the powerful command-line utility 'aria2c' (available in the 'aria2' package).

I still recommend you checkout Free Download Manager!!

Last edited by _sge; 06-05-2021 at 08:45 PM.
 
Old 06-05-2021, 11:09 PM   #10
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Download with wget or curl. They're what packagemanagers use to do your updating.

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Old 06-06-2021, 07:46 AM   #11
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Perhaps you missed it, boughtonp. My internet access is via my Android phone's HotSpot. I tried to download the files several times, and each time, the estimated time to download was 2+ hours - and that's contingent upon my connection not dropping! So, please, excuse me for bothering you with my trivial request.
I am painfully aware of the difficulties involved in downloading files over slow and unreliable connections.

You seem to be under the impression that email performs some unique magic to avoid those issues?

To be absolutely clear: transmitting an 805MB file over SMTP means an email message over 1GB in size that will likely never arrive.

Most email clients have limits to how big a file they will attach. I'm fairly sure all email providers have limits on sending size and will immediately refuse to send excessively large messages (Some web-based clients/providers convert large attachments to a web-based download link.)
There are also limits on the receipt of messages - if your Android device is linked to a Google email account, that limit is 50MB. (For some it's as low as 10MB.)
If all those were somehow avoided, it's still not going to download any faster, (and I wouldn't be surprised if trying to download a 1GB email crashed Android).

Trying to use email is stupid. If you need to get large files, use tools like curl/wget with HTTP/SFTP/etc, or pull it to a server you control and rsync it, or ask someone to host a torrent and use BitTorrent, etc.

 
Old 06-06-2021, 08:04 AM   #12
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I am painfully aware of the difficulties involved in downloading files over slow and unreliable connections.

You seem to be under the impression that email performs some unique magic to avoid those issues?

To be absolutely clear: transmitting an 805MB file over SMTP means an email message over 1GB in size that will likely never arrive.

Most email clients have limits to how big a file they will attach. I'm fairly sure all email providers have limits on sending size and will immediately refuse to send excessively large messages (Some web-based clients/providers convert large attachments to a web-based download link.)
There are also limits on the receipt of messages - if your Android device is linked to a Google email account, that limit is 50MB. (For some it's as low as 10MB.)
If all those were somehow avoided, it's still not going to download any faster, (and I wouldn't be surprised if trying to download a 1GB email crashed Android).

Trying to use email is stupid. If you need to get large files, use tools like curl/wget with HTTP/SFTP/etc, or pull it to a server you control and rsync it, or ask someone to host a torrent and use BitTorrent, etc.

Got it. Thanks.
 
Old 06-06-2021, 08:33 AM   #13
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You can also resume partially downloaded files with curl.

1st time, partial download, disconnected or you had to Ctrl+c.
Code:
agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:88.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/88.0"

curl -A "$agent" <url> -o MyFile.iso
Second time, pick up where you left off, from the first time.
Code:
curl -A "$agent" -C - <url> -o MyFile.iso
And, you can do that 6-8 times if you need to. Even days later it nothing has changed on the server, and you haven't deleted the partial download.

See:
man curl
 
Old 06-06-2021, 01:36 PM   #14
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Gonna ask if someone can download the two (2), new iterations of Rescuezilla: .focal.iso and .groovy.iso
 
Old 06-06-2021, 02:10 PM   #15
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Yes of course you can.

https://rescuezilla.com/download.html
https://github.com/rescuezilla/rescuezilla/releases

https://github.com/rescuezilla/rescu...4bit.focal.iso

https://github.com/rescuezilla/rescu...bit.groovy.iso

Code:
wget -spider https://github.com/rescuezilla/rescuezilla/releases/download/2.2/rescuezilla-2.2-64bit.focal.iso
...
185.199.110.154|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 843687936 (805M) [application/octet-stream]
Remote file exists.

wget --spider https://github.com/rescuezilla/rescuezilla/releases/download/2.1.3/rescuezilla-2.1.3-64bit.groovy.iso
...
185.199.111.154|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 933472256 (890M) [application/octet-stream]
Remote file exists.
If you can't download it at home, then you'll need to go to a library, internet cafe, school, friends house, or contact them to see if they sell copies on optical media. Or, download it in segments.

There is no way that once can download it and send it to you. You will still have to download it. It has to get to your machine somehow. Your mail box won't hold 800MB anyhow.
 
  


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