Also I should note that opening Firefox launches Patreon (which contains Google Analytics) and GitHub Pages (without analytics, but I may embed Javascript analytics in future).Īll that said, I would assert that there is zero reason you should take me (or anybody else) at my word. I am against automated telemetry even though it means I lose so much insight into how Rescuezilla is used (if I change my mind on this I will make it clear to everybody). At some point I do want to add a dialogue box on an error condition that allows one-click upload of error log files (note: the log files may contain information like filenames, hard drive models) but this hasn't been implemented yet.
Most people in Taiwan consider themselves to have Taiwanese nationality and reject many beliefs of the totalitarian Chinese Communist Party.Īs for Rescuezilla's data privacy, the Rescuezilla v2.2 frontend contains no analytics/telemetry of any kind. As you may know, Taiwan is a free and democratic country (officially known as the Republic of China) but is regarded as a breakaway province by the totalitarian communist country of China (officially known as the People's Republic of China). Based on their public profiles, both engineers are based Taiwan (at the "National Center for High-Performance Computing"). But Clonezilla is developed by Steven Shiau, and the very important "partclone" utility used internally is developed Thomas Tsai. I fully support everybody trying to avoid buying or using Made In China products for ethical reasons and data privacy. No offense, but what about the data privacy of Rescuezilla ? One thing I notice that the founder of Clonezilla is from Hong Kong/Chinese. The feature won't be available for some time, as it relies on first making partclone-utils (and Image Explorer) much faster and more reliable. Even Clonezilla doesn't have this advanced feature, but I have determined a pathway (see task #18 link). The best solution is for Rescuezilla to have the ability automatically restore to partitions smaller than original (task #18). When trying to restore a large image to a smaller disk, Rescuezilla automatically tells you if resizing the source disk is required.
CLONEZILLA IMAGE RESTORE DRIVE SIZES MANUAL
Eg, 1000GB HDD to 500GB SSD to capture the manual resizing step for the disks that need it. I have created the GitHub Wiki page HOWTO: Restoring to a smaller disk. All the advanced Clonezilla options are automatically handled by Rescuezilla with no extra effort required. But Rescuezilla v2.2 has vastly improved the user-interface around restoring to smaller disks to be much more clear.
CLONEZILLA IMAGE RESTORE DRIVE SIZES UPDATE
Update June 2021: Just to be clear, even with any existing version of Clonezilla and Rescuezilla, a manual resizing step is sometimes required for some disks.