Creating a backup SD card (* .img) to another media or network
Hello. Sorry for my English, I use google-translate.
Maybe someone already has experience and uses script / program to create a backup SD card entirely in the form of an image on an external storage (HDD, USB-flash), or over the network?
I am at the moment once a week turn off the system (I have a banana pi), remove the SD card and make a copy of the system image (using imagewriter.exe).
I want to automate the process, and without removing the SD card from the board. It's real?
Many thanks
i started working sometime ago on a backup script for my armbian, it is not complete and it was built for my case but it give a starting point for anyone interested in making a backup.
some decisions i took before writing it:
decided to go with rsync + archive and not rsync + image, going with archive instead of image makes restoring the backup a bit harder but it doesn't stop you from using a different format for your partition or a different sd card size same .
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