4 posts tagged Backup
I reinstalled one of my RPis (moving from 32 to 64 bit).
Before doing the full reinstall, I took a dump (dd) of my disk.
Usually, I create one per partition, but this was the Christmas season, and I was half occupied with feasting and half occupied with entertaining Ila. So, mistakes were made.
I ran dd if=/dev/sdb of=backup.img -- but this means I can't mount the disk directly, as it's not a partition:
5 or so days ago, this error suddenly popped up:
Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while creating the backup folder.
I have a Raspberry Pi, acting as TimeMachine (using afp/Bonjour/Netatalk).
There are several things I tried to solve this, including messing in the sparebundle from Linux (chowning) and deleting my TM .plist. This probably messed up my backup a bit.
But what seemed to ‘solve’ it for me was:
This.
Used my Raspberry Pi, with an USB disk as TimeMachine. Another disk as NAS/storage. It’s just quite slow… Not sure whether it’s my WiFi or RPi that can’t keep up.
But for now, it’s working.
My own simple rsync backup ‘script’.
You’ll need a rsync server, something to backup, and ssh-agent running to ease the process (or, fill in your password each time).
Add the following lines (using a terminal text editor) to a text file (".rsync" for example, hidden files under Unix-like systems), and chmod +x $file.
rsync --archive -uv --exclude-from=/home/you/.rsync_exclude \
--rsh="ssh -p 222" --delete --stats --progress /Users/you/Documents/ \
you@remost.host.com:/home/you/remote-backup-directory
This will upload any files in /Users/you/Documents to /home/you/remote-backup-directory.