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<h1>System Rescue Homepage</h1>
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<h2 id="about-systemrescue">About SystemRescue</h2>
<p><strong>Description:</strong> SystemRescue (formerly known as SystemRescueCd) is a Linux
system rescue toolkit available as a bootable medium for administrating or
repairing your system and data after a crash. It aims to provide an easy way to
carry out admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the hard
disk partitions. It comes with a lot of <a href="/System-tools/">Linux system utilities</a>
such as GParted, fsarchiver, filesystem tools and basic tools (editors, midnight
commander, network tools). It can be used for both Linux
and <a href="/manual/Backup_data_from_an_unbootable_windows_computer/">windows</a>
computers, and on desktops as well as servers. This rescue system requires no
installation as it can be booted from a CD/DVD drive or
<a href="/Installing-SystemRescue-on-a-USB-memory-stick/">USB stick</a>, but it can be
<a href="/manual/Installing_SystemRescue_on_the_disk/">installed on the hard disk</a>
if you wish. The kernel supports all important file systems (ext4, xfs, btrfs,
vfat, ntfs), as well as network filesystems such as Samba and NFS.</p>
<h2 id="system-and-networking-guides">System and Networking Guides</h2>
<p>In addition to the <a href="/Quick_start_guide/">Quick Start Guide</a>
and <a href="/manual/">SystemRescue documentation</a> here are other guides:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong><a href="/disk-partitioning/">Disk Partitioning</a></strong>:
<a href="/disk-partitioning/Introduction-to-disk-partitioning/">Introduction</a>,
<a href="/disk-partitioning/Partitions-attributes/">Attributes</a>,
<a href="/disk-partitioning/Standard-partitioning-tools/">Tools</a>,
<a href="/disk-partitioning/The-new-GPT-disk-layout/">GPT Disks</a>,
<a href="/disk-partitioning/Grub-boot-stages/">How Grub boots</a>,
<a href="/disk-partitioning/Repairing-a-damaged-Grub/">How to repair Grub</a></li>
<li><strong><a href="/lvm-guide-en/">LVM Volume-Manager</a></strong>:
<a href="/lvm-guide-en/Overview-of-the-logical-volume-manager/">Overview</a>,
<a href="/lvm-guide-en/How-the-logical-volume-manager-works/">How it works</a>,
<a href="/lvm-guide-en/Booting-linux-from-LVM-volumes/">Booting</a>,
<a href="/lvm-guide-en/Moving-the-linux-rootfs-to-an-LVM-volume/">Rootfs on LVM</a>,
<a href="/lvm-guide-en/Making-consistent-backups-with-LVM/">Snapshots and Backups</a></li>
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<h2 id="project-documentation">Project documentation</h2>
<p>This project comes with good <a href="/manual/">documentation</a>. Here are the most important pages:</p>
<h3 id="for-the-impatient">For the impatient:</h3>
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<li><a href="/Quick_start_guide/">Quick start guide</a>: please read this if this is the
first time you are using this system recovery cd.</li>
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<h3 id="chapters-about-basic-usage">Chapters about basic usage:</h3>
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<li><a href="/manual/Overview/">Overview of the livecd</a></li>
<li><a href="/manual/Downloading_and_burning/">Downloading and burning</a></li>
<li><a href="/Installing-SystemRescue-on-a-USB-memory-stick/">How to install SystemRescue on an USB-stick</a></li>
<li><a href="/manual/Booting_SystemRescue/">Booting SystemRescue (boot options)</a></li>
<li><a href="/manual/Starting_to_use_the_system/">Starting to use the system</a></li>
<li><a href="/manual/Network_configuration_and_programs/">Network: configuration and programs</a></li>
<li><a href="/manual/Mounting_ntfs_filesystems/">Mounting an NTFS partition with full Read-Write support</a></li>
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<h3 id="chapters-about-advanced-usage">Chapters about advanced usage:</h3>
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<li><a href="/manual/Installing_SystemRescue_on_the_disk/">Installing SystemRescue on the disk</a></li>
<li><a href="/manual/Installing_packages_with_pacman/">Installing additional software packages with pacman</a></li>
<li><a href="/manual/Configuring_SystemRescue/">Configuring SystemRescue with YAML files</a></li>
<li><a href="/manual/Creating_a_backing_store/">Creating a backing-store to keep your modifications</a></li>
<li><a href="/manual/PXE_network_booting/">PXE network booting with SystemRescue</a></li>
<li><a href="/manual/Run_your_own_scripts_with_autorun/">Run your own scripts at start-up with autorun</a></li>
<li><a href="/manual/Secure_Deletion_of_Data/">Secure Deletion of Data</a></li>
<li><a href="/manual/Backup_data_from_an_unbootable_windows_computer/">Backup data from an unbootable Windows computer</a></li>
<li><a href="/manual/Backup_and_transfer_your_data_using_rsync/">Backup and transfer your data using rsync</a></li>
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<h2 id="system-tools-included">System tools included</h2>
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<li><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/"><strong>GNU Parted</strong></a>: creates, resizes, moves, copies partitions, and filesystems (and more).</li>
<li><a href="http://gparted.org/"><strong>GParted</strong></a>: GUI implementation using the GNU Parted library.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.fsarchiver.org/"><strong>FSArchiver</strong></a>: flexible archiver that can be used as both system and data recovery software</li>
<li><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/"><strong>ddrescue</strong></a> : Attempts to make a copy of a block device that has hardware errors, optionally filling corresponding bad spots in input with user defined pattern in the copy.</li>
<li><strong>File systems tools</strong> (for Linux and Windows filesystems): format, resize, and debug an existing partition of a hard disk</li>
<li><a href="/manual/Mounting_ntfs_filesystems/"><strong>Ntfs3g</strong></a>: enables read/write access to MS Windows NTFS partitions.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk"><strong>Test-disk</strong></a> : tool to check and undelete partition, supports reiserfs, ntfs, fat32, ext3/ext4 and many others</li>
<li><a href="https://www.memtest.org/"><strong>Memtest</strong></a>: to test the memory of your computer (first thing to test when you have a crash or unexpected problems)</li>
<li><a href="/manual/Backup_and_transfer_your_data_using_rsync/"><strong>Rsync</strong></a>: very-efficient and reliable program that can be used for remote backups.</li>
<li><strong>Network tools</strong> (Samba, NFS, ping, nslookup, …): to backup your data across the network</li>
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<p>Browse the <a href="/System-tools/">short system tools page</a> for more details about the most important software included.</p>
<p>Browse the <a href="/Detailed-packages-list/">detailed package list</a> for a full list of the packages.</p>
<p><strong>It is possible to make custom versions of the system.</strong>
For example, you can add your own scripts, make an automatic restoration of the
system. It is also possible to create custom versions of SystemRescue.</p>
<p><strong>You can use SystemRescue to <a href="/manual/Backup_data_from_an_unbootable_windows_computer/">backup data from an unbootable Windows computer</a></strong>, if you
want to backup the data stored on a Windows computer that cannot boot any more.</p>
<p><strong>It is very easy to <a href="/Installing-SystemRescue-on-a-USB-memory-stick/">install SystemRescue on a USB stick</a></strong>. That is very useful in
case you cannot boot from the CD/DVD drive. You just have to copy several files to
the stick and run syslinux. The install process can be done from Linux or
Windows. Follow instructions from the <a href="/manual/">manual</a> for more details.</p>
<h2 id="more-information-about-this-project">More information about this project</h2>
<p>SystemRescue sources can be found on
<a href="https://gitlab.com/systemrescue/systemrescue-sources">GitLab</a> and these are
licensed under the <a href="https://opensource.org/licenses/GPL-3.0">GPLv3</a> license.</p>
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<h5>Documentation</h5>
<div><a href="/manual/">Manual (EN)</a></div>
<div><a href="/lvm-guide-en/">LVM Guide</a></div>
<div><a href="/disk-partitioning/">Disk partitioning</a></div>
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<h5>Project</h5>
<div><a href="https://gitlab.com/systemrescue/systemrescue-sources">Git repository</a></div>
<div><a href="https://gitlab.com/systemrescue/systemrescue-website">Website sources</a></div>
<div><a href="https://gitlab.com/systemrescue/systemrescue-sources/-/issues">Bug tracker</a></div>
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