Raspberry backup

[Shuffler]

Hello friends,
Few days ago i started a 'magic mirror' project on my raspberry pi. Everything went smoothly, untill it didnt and i had to kinda repeat my work few times (It is mostly because of my incompetence in linux matters).

I was thinking about making some automatic backup on my raspberry. I tried to search on the forum some ways to backup the system and only solution i found was to use win32discimage (*or something) application and manually plugin the card into my main pc.

I would want to automate it a bit if possible. Backing up to usb stick inserted into raspberry or even better to some cloud storage. Is it even possible? Can some of you give me some brief details how to backup linux systems in general and how does it work in a case of raspbian jessie ?

Would much appreciate, thanks.

[fruitoftheloom]

Hello friends,
Few days ago i started a 'magic mirror' project on my raspberry pi. Everything went smoothly, untill it didnt and i had to kinda repeat my work few times (It is mostly because of my incompetence in linux matters).

I was thinking about making some automatic backup on my raspberry. I tried to search on the forum some ways to backup the system and only solution i found was to use win32discimage (*or something) application and manually plugin the card into my main pc.

I would want to automate it a bit if possible. Backing up to usb stick inserted into raspberry or even better to some cloud storage. Is it even possible? Can some of you give me some brief details how to backup linux systems in general and how does it work in a case of raspbian jessie ?

Would much appreciate, thanks.

The latest update of Raspbian Jessie includes a SD Card Copier:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/anothe ... e-raspbian

[TrapdoorSmoke]

If you maker a empty text file on Windows and name it Backup.img
Go into win32disk imager and read onto that file.
Problem is if you expanded your root file system it will be massive if your card was 4GB that's how big the file will be.
So what you can do is put it in a zip file.

[mfa298]

I would want to automate it a bit if possible. Backing up to usb stick inserted into raspberry or even better to some cloud storage. Is it even possible? Can some of you give me some brief details how to backup linux systems in general and how does it work in a case of raspbian jessie ?

Would much appreciate, thanks.

Whilst it might not be a directly restoreable backup the likes of rsync will let you sync changed files from one drive to another (or even to another unix based system). This at least allows you to compare what's installed and contents of config files when you come to restore.

I also tend to write notes as I go of what I've installed and edited, this provides a means to re-install if needed and can also provide a useful guide when re-installing on a new/updated system in future. (Linux and Networking is part of the day job and documentation is part of that, so I do similar for my own projects)