Hi everyone! I’m trying to prepare a live iso with a USB stick including the additional rescuezilla package (or, alternatively, additional packages for a live rescuezilla .iso). Sadly rescuezilla does not support encryption, and so I’d like to be able to create/encrypt an image on one single live iso, not having to do a double iso boot just for this. I’m trying to do this in a manner that I won’t need internet once I need to use this USB stick. And hence…I found the most quoted command as:
apt-get download $(apt-rdepends |grep -v "^ ")
But this seems to work ONLY if your package is also part of the repo. If it’s an external .deb such as rescuezilla_2.4.2-1_all.deb is, then the command just fails with:
Reading state information... Done
W: Unable to locate package ./rescuezilla_2.4.2-1_all.deb
E: Handler silently failed
So…what can I do to download the many dependencies of rescuezilla onto a USB stick? Thanks!
The whole mechanism of working of Clonezilla is about the least intuitive I have ever found. So many chances for errors/mistakes, especially if you’re trying to do a network backup. Rescuezilla invokes clonezilla as a backup mechanism, but it saves you all the trouble with a way more intuitive UI. It’s been a revelation to me since I found about it, and refuse to use clonezilla alone.
Yeah that’s for sure, it’s pretty user hostile.
It’s not open source but I absolutely love Veeam Agent, it will backup an online system with encryption, very easy to use, and they provide a bootable recovery image to restore from.