https://www.pistack.xyz/tags/recovery/ Recent content in Recovery on Pi Stack Hugo en-us Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-06-07-self-hosted-system-rescue-recovery-systemrescue-rescuezilla-finnix-guide/ Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-06-07-self-hosted-system-rescue-recovery-systemrescue-rescuezilla-finnix-guide/ <h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2> <p>When a production server fails to boot, you need a rescue environment — and fast. Rather than fumbling for USB sticks during a 3 AM outage, self-hosting PXE-bootable rescue environments means every machine in your data center is one reboot away from a full diagnostic toolkit. We compare three open-source rescue distributions: <strong>SystemRescue</strong> (formerly SystemRescueCd), <strong>Rescuezilla</strong> (the GUI disk imaging specialist), and <strong>Finnix</strong> (the tiny-but-mighty recovery distro).</p>