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10 years raspiBackup
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10 years ago today the first version of raspiBackup was stored in my local cvs.
revision 1.1
date: 2013-08-07 21:28:14 +0200; author: framp; state: Exp; commitid: 10052029FC71A98602F;
Initial version
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This cvs unfortunately no longer exists because it would be interesting to see how the script has changed over the 10 years. Initially there were about 50 lines of code. Today raspiBackup has about 8000 lines of code.
Update 5/2025: The wayback machine has a copy from 2013/6 and there I found an initial version or raspiBackup. You can find it here. Actually this version has 314 LOCs instead of 50.
How to create a cold standby clone with raspiBackup?
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raspiBackup creates on a regular base backups and keeps a configurable number of backups which can be restored if needed. A lot of folks want to have the latest backup restored already on a second device which can be bootet immediately if the system fails for some reasons to reduce the downtime of the system. raspiBackup doesn't support to create a clone. But it's possible with a small helper tool which executes a restore just after the backup. If rsync as the backup type is used the restore is actually no restore but a synchronization of the changes between the last restored backup and latest backup which is in general very fast.
raspiBackup - FAQ
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Frequent asked questions about raspiBackup. Every new user of raspiBackup should read all questions and answers.
raspiBackup - How to restore your backup
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With raspiBackup you can create regular backups of your Raspberry. In addition you can restore a backup to any SD card. A new partition table is created on the target SD card and the backup data is restored on the partitions. If an external root filesystem was saved with raspiBackup this filesystem will also be restored to an external device.
Recently I got issues in github because restore failed. It's strictly recommended to restore your backup with the same OS the backup was created with. You're free to use another Linux release but this may the restore to fail because of different versions of the Linux tools which are usedto backup and restore the backup. In particular it's because of an incompatible change in sfdisk in Bullseye. Just use the OS the backup was created to restore the backup!
raspiBackup - Installation and configuration in 5 minutes
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Purpose of this page is to explain step by step how to use raspiBackup to create a backup imediately and how configure raspiBackup in 5 minutes to create a backup of your Raspberry on a regular base. This page describes for different platforms (Linux, Mac or Windows) how to restore the backup. After testing the backup and restore the next step should be to check which services have to be stopped before the backup starts. Finally cron (starting with Installer 0.4.8 systemd timer) should be configured to start raspiBackup on a regular base. Later on when you have some spare time read this page carefully to check which additional features of raspiBackup are useful for you and update the raspiBackup configuration accordingly. In any case it's strongly recommended to read the FAQ. The raspiBackup installer can be used to uninstall raspiBackup completely if for some reasons raspiBackup does not meet your requirements.
Note: In 5 minutes raspiBackup will be installed and configured if you have basic Linux knowledge. Otherwise you will need more time even the installer helps to create a basic raspiBackup configuration - unfortunately.
How to emulate Raspberry Pi with QEMU
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A lot of people are interested in a Raspberry Pi and want to get some idea about the operating system running on Pi without the need to buy a Pi first. I actually searched for a convenient way to test a backup script called raspiBackup I wrote for the Raspberry Pi. A nice way to evaluate Raspbian or to run any tests is to use QEMU to emulate the Raspberry Pi. Note that special Pi hardware like GPIO et al cannot be simulated. It's just the processor which is simulated. You need a Raspbian image and a system with Linux or Windows. Today I configured my system to run a Pi in QEMU and in the following article I explain step by step how I installed and configured QEMU on my Debian based Linux. The image has a networking connection right after startup and will use the existing host network connection with NAT. Finally a script is provided which executes the steps described and simplifies the image creation process.
/usr/sbin/NetworkManager: error while loading shared libraries: libhogweed.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
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I recently had to restore a backup created by a rsync backup created by raspiBackup because my SD card died. The restore was successfull but NetworkManager didn't start :-(. With sudo journalctl -n 100 -u NetworkManager.service I detected the error message
/usr/sbin/NetworkManager: error while loading shared libraries: libhogweed.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
It took me a while to find the root cause of the issue. Finally it's not an issue with raspiBackup but with librtmp1 and the way it's packaged in RaspbianOS.
raspiBackup - Supported hardware and software
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raspiBackup - Supported hardware and software
raspiBackup is supported with RaspbianOS and Uvuntu and Raspberry hardware only. But raspiBackup can also be used successfully on different Raspberry compatible hardware with different Linux distributions. But note raspiBackup requires the /boot and /root partition used in RaspbianOS.
Just test raspiBackup on your environment and be happy if it works. But if it fails or you get error messages there is no support. You may create an issue in github and append the debug log and I will check whether the issue is minor and it's a low hanging fruit. But in any case the environment is unsupported.
Given the fact raspiBackup is maintained and supported for free
1) It's too expensive for me to buy all possible hardware required for tests
2) it's too expensive for me to setup and execute all test combinations
3) it's to expensive for me to execute all tests every time a new release will be published.
Donations may depending on the effort get me to enable unsupported environments.
raspiBackup checks whether it's running on a supported hard- and software and terminates if it's unsupported. Use option --unsupportedEnvironmentto disable this check.
raspiBackup - Create regularly and unattended backup versions of your running Raspberries
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raspiBackup helps to create backups of a running Raspberry with no shutdown or manual intervention which means your can save or clone your SD card during normal operation. An exported root partition will be saved too. Important services will be stopped just before starting the backup and are started again when the backup finished. Any device which can be mounted on Linux can be used as backupspace (USB disk, USB stick, nfs, samba, sshfs, ...). The backup image can be created with dd, tar or rsync using hardlinks. Restore is possible on Windows or Linux. Source Raspbian may have been installed on SD card only or the boot partition may be on SD card and the root partition on an external USB device like USB SSD or USB stick. Raspbian installed on an USB device only using USB boot mode is also supported
raspiBackup - General questions
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If there is no specific question about raspiBackup to be asked on the respective website, general questions can be asked here. If there is a special page for the question, it will be referred to and
after the question was asked there again, answered there.
Raspberry Compute Module 4 (CM4) setup guide on eMMC and NVMe
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I recently got a compute module 4 (CM4) donated to add support for NVMe in raspiBackup (See here for details). I'm used to use a Raspberry but never used a CM4 before so I had to ramp up on CM4 first. The following page describes how I managed to get a RaspbianOS (Buster) up and running on the CM4 and to boot from NVMe.
My CM4 specs: 1GB main memory, 32GB eMMC and 128GB NVMe from Hynix, no WiFi and a Waveshare Mini Base Board A (CM4-IO-BASE-A)
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Hynix NVMe, CM4 and Waveshare Mini Base Board A (from top to bottom)
Parts assembled
raspiBackup - How do hardlinks work with rsync
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A lot of time people ask how the rsync backup type works and how hardlinks are used. Following article describes what happens when files are created and deleted on the file system in the backup process and how hardlinks are used.
raspiBackup - Used all over the world
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Users of raspiBackup in the world (Status 01/2024)
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