Have just ran a couple of tests to see which is the fastest. I have 1.5TB of data to backup to a 1TB external SSD by Micron. Using my favourite free backup programs Macrium V8 free and Rescuezilla V2.5.1.
Macrium ran in Windows 11 took 5 hours and 30 mins to backup 1.5tb of data to USB 3 external SSD.
Rescuezilla took 3 hours to backup the same data to another external SSD.
With Macrium you can still do stuff in Win 11 while it's running as it sits nicely in the background after you have set it away. Rescuezilla is fairly limited it has the latest firefox so you can browse the web while the backup is running but I couldn't get any sound to work so no music for me.
In conclusion Rescuezilla is 2 and half hours faster so I think I will be backing up with that in future.
that must be a feat in itself
myself never tried Rescuezilla before , used Macrium in the past to clone my HHD to SSD and went smoooooth.
but good info , next time i decide to backup (which i never do ) , i'll look into Rzilla
You may also want to look at Redo Rescue. It's also Linux based like Rescuezilla, and also runs from an ISO. I don't dislike Rescuezilla, but I've had numerous occasions on two wildly different systems (a work machine and my personal desktop) in which Rescuezilla hung while the monitors were off and when I woke them up again, it was unrecoverable. I had to restart those backups and keep poking my mouse to keep the screen awake. Redo Rescue sometimes seems to stop updating the progress display, but it always corrects itself when I move the mouse, and has never hung.
Redo is pretty old (2021) and doesn't support Secure Boot so has to be turned off. Seems fast enough to backup and verify, similar speed to Rescuezilla but I like how it tells you how much space is left on the destination.
Interestingly, it seems to fumble its way through secure boot. I have to keep it on on the work machine, and it DOES throw a security violation message when Redo starts, but hitting enter causes it to repeat it a couple of times and then give up and run Redo Rescue anyway. <_<
I need to make time to try to the new release of Rescuezilla someone mentioned the other day. I prefer Redo's UI significantly, but ought to do my due diligence.
Rescuezilla hasn't changed much just its now made with Ubuntu Noble. My machine switches off when secure boot fails so its a case of going into bios and disabling it.
Even if it hasn't changed much, if the move means it doesn't hang on me, I can go back to it and save having to re-write the documentation I wrote for my employer. <_<
I havent had a hang except for 2 mins waiting at the end for the summary. I thought it had crashed so waited. Had the screensaver kick in and it kept going.
I've downloaded the latest. Last backup was eldest's Win 11 22H2. First time I ran it it complained about Windows not gaving shut down cleanly (2.42 version of Rescuezilla). I had an awful lot of tweaking to do in the BIOS. I must say that the BIOS used on ASUS Intel motherboards is far more confusing than the AMD versions, there's a lot more navigating to do. I used it to clone a failing 1 Tb drive where Win 11 was installed on to a new 1 Tb M.2 SSD from Crucial. No issues. The great thing about Rescuezilla is it is OS agnostic, unlike Windows backup software, yet they use parts of Linux. I know this from many years ago using Acronis True Image held a cygwin registry key!
) , i'll look into Rzilla