raspberry pi backup options

rpruen · Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2019 2:10 pm Post subject: raspberry pi backup options

What do you all use for backup?

Now I have things set up how I like, I was going to image the sd card. However having some sort of automatic backup solution would be handy. I'm not sure yet what to use, maybe something simple like a usb disk drive.

For my laptop I have DejaDup for offsite user data, and timeshift for the system, but that's possibly a bit heavy duty for a Pi

Thanks for any thoughts

Richard

Goverp · Advocate Joined: 07 Mar 2007 Posts: 2182

I rsync the Pi to my desktop, and that gets backed up to a 1TB USB drive. This has the advantage that the Pi is formatted for F2FS, whereas the desktop is ext4, and I use sys-arch/dump to back that up (and it won't handle anything but ext.) To be honest, I hardly ever remember to back the Pi up. It just sits there quietly running 24x7x52 as my print server.
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Kashire · n00b Joined: 08 Apr 2019 Posts: 31

Second for rsync.

Also, every month I run dd+gzip (and when I am doing big changes.)
so I can recover with ease, just in case.

rpruen · Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2019 7:12 am Post subject:

Thanks for the tips