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default	Relax-and-Recover - Linux Disaster Recovery

Relax-and-Recover (ReaR) is a setup-and-forget Linux bare metal disaster recovery solution. It is easy to set up and requires no maintenance so there is no excuse for not using it.

Learn more about Relax-and-Recover from the selected usage scenarios below:

Home user	Enterprise user
recover from a broken hard disk using a bootable USB stick recover a broken system from your bootloader	collect small ISO images on a central server integrate with your backup solution integrate with your monitoring solution

Or watch a 4-minute complete backup and restore demo. Real time, no cheating!

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Try Relax-and-Recover now. The Quickstart guide takes only a few minutes!

Your environment not supported? Relax-and-Recover is modular and easy to extend. It is GPL licensed and we welcome all feedback and contributions.

To learn more about the Relax-and-Recover concepts, basic & advanced usage and project history watch this 45-minute introduction by Schlomo Schapiro, project founder and maintainer:

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