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Re: Newbie Pitfall - BACKUPS don't restore (insufficient space)
Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2019 3:30 pm
by fruitoftheloom
JackElliott wrote: ↑Sat Aug 24, 2019 3:02 pm
That link no longer works. Do we not like image-backup? Is image-backup available elsewhere?
You are responding to an out of date post.
Personally I back up to another SD Card.
Raspbian Buster with Desktop includes SD Card Copier which may be of interest...
...or if running headless:
https://github.com/billw2/rpi-clone
Re: Newbie Pitfall - BACKUPS don't restore (insufficient space)
Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2019 4:12 pm
by scruss
Re: Newbie Pitfall - BACKUPS don't restore (insufficient space)
Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2019 5:12 pm
by DougieLawson
JackElliott wrote: ↑Sat Aug 24, 2019 3:02 pm
That link no longer works. Do we not like image-backup? Is image-backup available elsewhere?
Use the "SD Card Copier" that's built in to Raspbian.
Re: Newbie Pitfall - BACKUPS don't restore (insufficient space)
Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2019 5:34 pm
by JackElliott
Am I out of date on this? "SD Card Copier" has or doesn't have an issue with making images too large to restore . . . or something like that?
Re: Newbie Pitfall - BACKUPS don't restore (insufficient space)
Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2019 5:45 pm
by fruitoftheloom
JackElliott wrote: ↑Sat Aug 24, 2019 5:34 pm
Am I out of date on this? "SD Card Copier" has or doesn't have an issue with making images too large to restore . . . or something like that?
SD Card Copier will copy, as stated, to a SD Card which has sufficient space..
..it will also copy to a USB Flash Drive.
Running Raspbian Buster with Desktop, just try it and see if it fits your needs !
Re: Newbie Pitfall - BACKUPS don't restore (insufficient space)
Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2019 10:07 pm
by JackElliott
Thank you . . . and a command line version that I can set up in cron? That's kind of what I was envisioning using image-backup for.
Re: Newbie Pitfall - BACKUPS don't restore (insufficient space)
Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2019 12:40 am
by JackElliott
Dang, sorry -- my apologies! Inattentiveness. I saw the github documentation for rpi-clone and it looked like a steep learning curve. Will take another go at it.