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From: CoMa on 8 Aug 2010 05:12

Redo Backup & Restore
http://www.redobackup.org/

Easy GUI rescue CD for full system backup and recovery from bare metal.
Point-and-click cloning of hard disk images to local or network drives.
Based on partclone (same as Clonezilla).
User-friendly interface similar to Norton Ghost.
Live CD or USB.



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Version 0.9.5 (2010-08-08)
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* Major speed improvements; backups and restores now 4x faster
* Standalone gzip binary allows the compression level to be specified
* Updated partclone to version 0.2.13
* Added the smartmontools "smartctl" CLI for monitoring drive health
* Back to using syslinux from the standard Ubuntu 9.10 repo version
* Only one isolinux.cfg/syslinux.cfg file to maintain

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Version 0.9.4 (2010-08-02)
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* New option to manually specify a shared folder or FTP server
* Allow retry if network mount fails or bad password is provided
* Warning: New backup naming convention allows dashes, not underscores
* Created /opt/backup to hold backup components (instead of using
/opt/core)
* ISO CD-ROM label changed to "Redo Backup"
* Suppress umount error messages when they aren't really errors
* Added testdisk_static for recovering partition tables and MBRs
* Added rsync for copying files with a progress indicator
* Default boot option now works with any VESA-compatible video card
* Simplified boot menu focused on hardware support instead of languages
* Added F1 option to boot menu to display helpful options and information
* Cancel button kills any running backup/restore processes before exiting
* Hotplug scripts removed at boot time to stop automounting (for gparted)
* USB installer upgraded to syslinux-3.86, forcibly writes mbr.bin to
device
* USB installer now creates FAT32 partition and filesystem instead of FAT16
* Optionally search for network shares on demand, rather than automatically
* Compatibility fixes and UI improvements to factory drive reset tool
* Added reiserfsprogs, reiser4progs and mcheck for more filesystem support

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Version 0.9.3 (2010-07-04)
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* Warning: Not interoperable with images from previous versions
* Updated partclone to version 0.2.12
* Save partclone error log to /partclone.log during each operation
* Split backup images into 2GB files rather than saving one giant file
* Added GZIP compression to reduce size of backup image
* Backup saves first 32768 bytes rather than 512 when imaging MBR
* Partition list saved to *.backup instead of *.redo
* Fixed missing nmap dependencies so that local FTP servers are found
* USB installation now detects if CD is in /dev/scd0 or /dev/sdc1
* Stronger warning before overwriting all data to destination drive
* Decision to abort restoration now aborts (continued either way before)
* Abort restore if destination drive is smaller than the original
* Do not allow partition being saved to be selected as the destination
* Warn when restoring to the same drive the backup image is being read from
* Minor graphic adjustment to title image
* Removed kernel boot option "quiet" so users can see it is booting
* Removed kernel boot option "noisapnp" (added by default in xPUD project)
* Splash screen implemented on USB stick installations
* Modified boot menu appearance and help text

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Version 0.9.2 (2010-06-24)
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* Initial release

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Regards
CoMa

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