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mouser:
Thanks for posting this ewemoa  :up:

ewemoa:
Tried 1.0.3 and 1.0.4 today.

1.0.3 worked pretty well, however...

1.0.4. would not restore a backup made with 1.0.3.  1.0.4 also failed to backup the same set up.  Of course, these things may be particular to the local setup.

It appears that along with the backups being made, it might be prudent to backup the iso image of Redo Backup used to create the backup (or note the version used).

Also from 1.0.3:

Restore now overwrites MBR and partition table upon completion

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and this appears to be something one cannot opt out of.

Despite these gotchas, 1.0.3 appears to be a viable alternative here to using OneKey Recovery Factor Default Recovery discs.  Redo Backup probably took less than 30 minutes to perform a recovery while the OneKey discs took over an hour.  Also, with Redo Backup it is not necessary to swap among 4 optical discs during the restore.


Changelogs:

Version 1.0.3 (2012-05-10)

* Restore now overwrites MBR and partition table upon completion

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Version 1.0.4 (2012-11-20)

* Base upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise)
* Percent complete now based on part sizes rather than total number of parts
* Windows now have titlebars to ease minimizing, maximizing and closing
* Time is now synced to localtime (hardware clock) after boot
* Widget theme changed to Bluebird for Gtk3 compatibility
* Now has a helpful beep to indicate when long processes are finished
* Added alsamixergui to enable mixer button on volume control
* Drive reset utility can now operate on multiple drives simultaneously
* Removed synaptic and boot-repair packages to reduce image size

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majoMO:
Also from 1.0.3:

Restore now overwrites MBR and partition table upon completion

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-ewemoa (April 30, 2013, 01:56 AM)
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Hi ewemoa, what that really means? I thought that when Redo restored a image it restored also MBR [useful if MBR was changed by some rootkit meanwhile].

ewemoa:
If I understand correctly, before version 1.0.3 (so 1.0.2 and earlier), the MBR was not restored.

May be the following thread has some relevant discussion:

  MBR restore to be optional

majoMO:
@ ewemoa, thanks a lot for the thread link! It clarify the issue.

Like said there "Previous versions of Redo did not write the MBR after a restore"; in fact it "completely overwrite your MBR and partition table using data from the backup image" and "ALWAYS written to the drive at the beginning of a restore".

So the MBR is always restored even with olders versions; no problems indeed.

Thanks again!

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