RescueBRU is the Rescue CD Backup & Restore Utility. It is a user
friendly interface to various programs on the System Rescue CD.

RescueBRU allows you to create backup images of nearly any PC, even 
those on which the filesystems or partitioning schemes are 
unsupported. In the event of data corruption or drive hardware 
failure, you can restore the backup images to the original drive or 
to a new drive of equal or greater capacity. After the restoration, 
you just reboot and use the restored drive immediately. No flaky 
Norton Ghost boot floppies. No Windows device configuration. No 
device driver installation. No IP address or software configuration. 
Less downtime.

Backup files are stored on an NFS server, a portable USB drive, or a 
local directory. The general procedure is to run a backup to the 
backup media using this custom System Rescue CD. When a drive needs 
to be rebuilt, you can boot this CD on the bad machine and restore 
directly from the NFS server or the USB drive. For details of how 
this works, see the more specific help topics in the help menu. 

When booting the RescueBRU CD, the RescueBRU boot page will appear. 
If you are backing up or restoring a single machine, you can just 
hit enter to continue booting. You can also backup or restore 
multiple machines at once if you are using an NFS server as your 
media type.


The Main Menu

The main menu gives you access to all functions of RescueBRU. 

Option 1: Settings menu. Allows you to select which type of media to 
use for backup or restore, the method used for backups, and the 
action for the program to take after a successful operation.

Option 2: Do a backup. See the help for Doing a backup.

Option 3: Do a restore. See the help for Restoring from a backup.

Option 4: Disk Utilities. See the help for Disk Utilities.

Option 5: Image Management. Allows you to copy, rename or delete 
images stored on the backup media.

Option 6: View logs or notes. Log files and notes are generated 
during most operations of RescueBRU and may be saved with an image 
when backups or restores are done. These files may be viewed using 
this option.

Option 7: Show backups available on media.

Option H: Help. You know what this does, or you wouldn't be here.

Option S: Exit to shell or Exit and return to rbruserver. This will 
exit the RescueBRU program and return you to the System Rescue CD 
shell if you ran rescuebru directly from a shell prompt. If 
rescuebru was called from the rbruserver program, you will be 
returned to rbruserver.

Option R: Exit and reboot. Reboots the system.

Option P: Exit and power down. Powers down the system on systems 
that support it. For systems that do not support APM or ACPI 
poweroff, it halts the system.