Newbie Pitfall - BACKUPS don't restore (insufficient space)

[fruitoftheloom]

@steveb4pi ,

You may find image-backup useful:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/down ... p?id=19918

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You are responding to an out of date post.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

[scruss]

image-backup seems to live here, for now:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/view ... 8#p1511694

[DougieLawson]

@steveb4pi ,

You may find image-backup useful:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/down ... p?id=19918

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.

[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Am I out of date on this?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?

[fruitoftheloom]

Am I out of date on this?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 !

[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.

[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.