It runs from a live CD, a bootable Linux CD image, features a GUI that is a front end to the Partclone command line utility, and is capable of bare-metal backup and recovery of disk partitions.

After a long period of inactivity since 2012, the project has been resumed in 2020 adopting a shorter name: Redo Rescue.

The issue is a revoked UEFI certificate in the underlying OS used by Redo Rescue.

So anyone getting Windows updates cannot use this system backup software unless the developer is willing to issue another release or unless someone forks a new version to fix the problem.

In addition to backup software, the disk includes additional supporting programs such as: In 2019, while the project was inactive, it was forked[2] and many long-standing bugs were fixed,[3] to create Rescuezilla[4] based on Debian, later based on Ubuntu.