Questions about what and how to backup your Raspberry Pi
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Are there Restore Points alternatives on Raspberry Pi?
I have the following problem - we are distributing Raspberry Pi devices with our some software installed into it to our clients. Occasionally we need to update the current state of their OS (for ...
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Raspberry Pi as Time Machine
I've used this tutorial to setup a Pi 3 with a 2TB external USB drive as a replacement Time Machine.
TL;DR:
Format drive
➜ ~ sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda
Install netatalk
➜ ~ sudo apt-get update
➜ ~ ...
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How to make incremental backups from Raspberry Pi SD-Card on Windows?
I'm using Win32 Disk Imager to make backups from my SD-Card, but Win32 Disk Imager can only make full backups, that's using too much disk space.
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Rpi sd card image back up done in windows not open in ubuntu?
I have taken the back up of my Rpi SD card using win32diskImager in windows. I have got the successful message and the Image file. Then I tried to open the same image in the ubuntu but only the boot ...
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Restoring backup of /etc on new disk image and best practices
My Pi crashed and lost data recently but I had an old backup of /etc and /home.
When I reflashed the SD card I used a new OS, my question is can I just replace this /etc with the old one? I’m happy ...
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Expand file sytem only to certain size of sd card
Is it possible to expand the file system only to a certain amount?
I guess everyone is familiar with the following problem:
You start with for e.g. an 8 GB sd card. Expand the file system and when ...
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Easy backups and snapshots of a running system with LVM
LVM (Logical Volume Manager) has some useful enhancements. You can make a snapshot, then check new programs and if they don't work as expected or you don't like them you can simply revert to your ...
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Problem backing up Raspberry Pi with Mac
Because I have installed a bunch of things for a larger project on my Raspberry Pi 3 Model B, I would like to backup the entire (bootable) SD card on my Mac.
I tried to insert the SD card into my Mac ...
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Backup Raspberry Partition Layout?
I've noticed that when doing backups of Linux Machines there tend to be two parts: File Backups and partition layout backups.
File Backups backup the non-os type files that are unique to you, and ...
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Why is my new Raspberry Pi 3 shutting down after inactivity?
My new Raspberry Pi 3 seems to shut down after a certain amount of inactivity. Is that intended behaviour? I've not found any documentation that says specifically whether this is supposed to happen, ...
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Raspberry Pi back up image shrinking [duplicate]
I have a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian.
I need to make an image of a whole SD card, shrink it to minimal size and, in case of errors, corruption, etc., be able to burn this image to a new SD card.
So ...
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How to setup a simple No-brainer 'TimeMachine' like backups for Raspbian
Trying to create an experience as simple as the 'Time Machine' functionality for my RPi3 running Stretch.
I'd like to have a few options if possible.
Creating a backup to a sufficient capacity disk ...
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Industrial Reliability of Raspberry Pi for long-term use? [closed]
I need to automate my plant room, having a few water tanks and pumps.
Will RPi 3 Model B be reliable for this purpose?
It will need to be 24/7 monitoring.
Any experiences?
Any mathematical ...
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Backup of SD image on Mac could not be written back to same-size SD: too large
I've built a beautifully crafted SD card for my application using a Raspberry Pi Zero. Before shipping it to my customer I've made a backup.
What I did on my Mac BookPro is
Open DiskUtility
Menu `...
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Is possible to make the backup and the recovery root partition from one to the other?
I have two Raspberry Pi boards. One is a (Pi 1) Model B and the other is a Pi 2 Model B.
The Pi 1 Model B is a new one from my friend. I had used the Pi 2 Model B for a long time.
I know the ...
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Raspberry Pi Boot USB Flash Drive Automatic Image Backup
I boot Raspberry Pi’s from USB Flash Drives and have been trying to utilize the bkup_rpimage found on GitHub. I changed the drive to point to the USB Flash Drive in the bkup_rpimage.sh file; however, ...
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Partition of raspberry pi on Ubuntu 16.04
When I booted raspbian on raspberry pi, the name of partition is
/dev/mmcblk0
But when I connect sd card via USB reader on Ubuntu 16.04, it shows a different name as
/dev/sdc
These sd cards are ...
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Backing up Raspberry PI
I have been backing up my Raspberry Pi using a script that:
Stops the cron service
does a "dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=sharedStorageFile.img
starts the cron service
Every time I have had to use ...
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Howto prepare a SD card from a tar archive
For testing various setups I feel it more comfortable to use tar
archives instead of images.
* You only save programs and data, no need to fiddle with nullbytes to optimize compression or shrink ...
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Connect a Tape Drive LTO4 to the raspberry pi
I have a NAS System at home with a RAID-6 and somewhere around 20TB of data.
I have bought a LTO4 external drive that connects over SAS and a few tapes for testing.
A few questions:
Do you have any ...
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Is it possible that an SD is broken and I can not make an image out of it?
I'm trying to make a system image for a backup of my rpi3 microSD, but when I try to restore it do not works.
First method I've tried is dd on Linux with this well known commands:
sudo dd bs=4M if=/...
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Restoring a Raspbian system with an rsync ssh backup: permissions at backup time
I have a Raspberry Pi 2 running Raspbian Jessie. It is being used as a reverse proxy for my various self-hosted services, it is running openHAB, it is my mosquitto server, etc.
I would like to create ...
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Resizing Rasperry Pi Image [duplicate]
I am trying to make a backup of my raspian image, so I can distribute it to more Raspberrys in the future. I used dd for that, but as my sd card is larger then the image, I ended up with a 16 Gb file ...
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Is there a way to compress a backup of the RPi because the backup has empty space?
I did a backup for my RPi (64GB microsd card) and it saved the entire 64GB worth .img file... while theres only ~14GB worth actual data, the image file accounts also for that empty space.
Anyone know ...
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How to restore SD backup
Environment:
My laptop OS: Linux Mint 18.2 Cinnamon 64-bit - Kernel: 4.10.0
My Raspberry OS: Raspbian Stretch with desktop (Version: August 2017) - Kernel: 4.9
Raspberry is installed on a 16GB SD ...
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Live stream video surveillance as client
Live streaming video using a raspberry pi, over a 4G network which is accessible from anywhere around the world. In this application raspberry pi will be the client to a webserver, and user should be ...
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Backup SanDisk Ultra 32GB using Win32DiskImager or Roadkill
I formatted the SD card using Windows Vista and SD Formatter. Then I copied NOOBs files, inserted it into the PI3 and installed all my softare (Raspberry...). The system works but I am unable to ...
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How to clone Raspberry Pi SD Card on Windows, Linux, and macOS? [duplicate]
I want to make a back up of my raspberry pi because I have done a lot of work and repeating the process would take a lot of time. How does one go about making an image of a Raspberry Pi SD card for ...
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Create a Raspberry pi backup without dd
I would like to backup the entire content of my Raspberry Pi SD Card on linux PC. I have found online many tutorials that suggest to use dd to perform the operation. However my SD Cards have a wide ...
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Cloned Jessie image fails to acquire a dhcp address
I have a very nasty issue with Jessie :-(
Background:
I wrote a tool called raspiBackup which backups and restores a Raspberry and because it works fine for me and helped me multiple times to recover ...
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“No such file or directory” while backing up the SD card using dd on Mac
The diskutil said that my SD card is located on /dev/disk4, so I typed
sudo dd if=/dev/rdisk4 of=~/Desktop/backup.img bs=1m
to backup my SD card. But there is a message
dd: ~/Desktop/backup.img: ...
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Relax-and-Recover Bootable Image Types that work with the Raspberry Pi?
Are there any bootable image types that Relax-and-Recover creates that could be booted and used to restore the system layout on a Raspberry Pi / Jesse 8?
I know that the system layout of the SD Card ...
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How to shrink the size of your sd card before using dd to backup your sd card [duplicate]
I use 32gb micro sd card for my raspibian. I use dd this command to backup it. But, I found it is too large. How to shrink it before I backup it?
Thanks.
Add words:
I had used a 16gb sd card. Then, ...
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Image non-resized partition from a large SD
I burnt a 2GB OS image on a 16GB sd card and went thru the whole configuration process (a good half day of work to adapt it to our needs) except for the resizing of the partition.
I would now, ...
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How can I backup my whole SD to an img file usable with Etcher to restore later?
My question is related to the part towards the end of this short article ("SD card image"):
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/linux/filesystem/backup.md
My question is how can I backup ...
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Impossible to restore a backup raspberry 3 image
The sdcard of my raspberry 3 crashed a few weeks ago. I am trying to restore the raspbian system on another sdcard of the same capacity using a backup image of the sdcard created before the crash.
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Backing up SD card generates a huge .img file
I am trying to back up a 16GB SD card as it is proposed here:
How do I backup my Raspberry Pi?
I have started with 2017-01-11-raspbian-jessie-lite.img and then did some work with FFmpeg (cloned & ...
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Usage of external HDD, power consumption
I'm thinking in getting a RPi+USB HDD to make a server in my office, it would be working 24/7 and the primary usage would be to storage backups which would be automatically uploaded from different ...
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Raspberry Pi image files - is .img created by dd the same as .img used by Win32DiskImager?
I'd like to have a strategy to be able to make backup images of a Pi while it is running, but then have the option to restore that image to the SD Card in the case the system becomes unbootable or ...
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Problem copying SD card with `dd` on OSX
i am trying to back up my sd-card(16GB) with Mac using:
sudo dd if=/dev/rdisk3 of=~/Desktop/raspberrypi20161117_r.dmg bs=1m
Output:
dd: /dev/rdisk3: Input/output error
2996+0 records in
2996+0 ...
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Can't backup RPi using dd. One partition causing issues
I've been trying to backup my RPi Model B but I'm having no luck whatsoever. Here's what my Macbook's terminal shows under "diskutil list":
/dev/disk2 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE ...
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HDDRawCopy for backing up Rasperrry Pi SD cards
I routinely backup my Raspberry Pi SD card to my PC using HDDRawCopy. It works fine and basically I'm happy.
However, several months ago I backed up one of my Pi's and proceeded to continue ...
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After installing and customised how to make an distribution image (size of only data)
I just installed FreeBSD 11 on a Raspberry Pi 1 Model B, the raw image is less than 1GB after installing some packages and customising the setup I would like to create an image the one I could share ...
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What should the name of my non-boot partition be?
I am trying to restore a backup to a new SD card. Because I appear to have used an obscure backup process, the contents of the boot partition are in one place, and the contents of the other partition ...
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Raspberry pi 3 boot partition gets corrupted over and over
I have a very hard problem with my raspi. Well, this is the steps I follow:
Write a raspbian jessie lite or PiBakery into the SD Card.
Boot from the pi, no problem
Set internationalization
Update, ...
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How to restore SD card backup?
I have had a failure in my SD card, but fortunately, I made a backup. However, I have no idea how to do the restore procedure.
My backup was created with the raspbiBackup.sh script, and produces four ...
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rsync exclude-from does not work
I am trying to backup raspbian onto itself following this stackexchange post but it seems the exclude from flag doesnt work,
This is the command I am using
sudo rsync -avH --delete-during --delete-...
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How to exclude specific folder in rsync?
Hi I am rsync ing and I need to exclude the folder 'Art' and 'Thumbnail' from rsync process , these two folders are inside this location
/home/pi/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/...
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How to backup sd card running raspibian to disk image? [duplicate]
I am running raspibian Jessie on raspberry pi 3,
And I want to backup the entire raspibian OS to a disk image!
Is it possible if I can backup to disk right from within raspibian OS running installed ...
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Raspbian on HardDrive
I'm currently running an apache2 server off my Raspberry Pi 2 with no problems and everything is going smoothly. Recently, my organization (which uses the Pi) came upon a pretty good computer and we ...
