Alternatives to Relax-and-Recover

A Linux bare-metal disaster recovery tool that creates bootable rescue media and ties into backup software. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as Relax-and-Recover.

  • Veeam Agent

    Image-based backup agent for Windows and Linux endpoints, free for individual machines.

    FreemiumProprietaryWindowsLinux

    Veeam Agent's free edition does image-level backup with bare-metal recovery on Linux and Windows for one machine, but it is closed source.

  • Clonezilla

    A bootable disk cloner that images a whole drive or partition, including systems it cannot understand.

    FreeOpen sourceLinux

    Clonezilla images a whole drive including the boot loader from a bootable environment, rather than creating rescue media tied to a separate backup tool.

  • Rescuezilla

    A bootable disk imaging and cloning tool that is Clonezilla with a graphical interface people can actually use.

    FreeOpen sourceLinux

    Rescuezilla takes whole-drive images through a point-and-click bootable environment, so restores bring back the full system without separate backup software.

  • Redo Rescue

    Create and restore disk images from a bootable rescue environment.

    FreeOpen sourceLinux

    Redo Rescue creates and restores disk images from a bootable rescue environment, handling both the image and recovery rather than relying on another backup method.

  • Foxclone

    Point-and-click Linux tool for imaging, restoring and cloning disk partitions.

    FreeOpen sourceLinux

    Foxclone images and restores partitions and partition tables through a simple graphical interface from a Linux live environment, instead of command-line setup.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.