If you're just looking for a simple backup solution, I've had good results with creating a full image of the SD card/eMMC before making major changes. It's easy to restore if something goes wrong. For regular backups, syncing just your important configs and data is usually a lot faster than backing up the entire system every time.

I thought you made a typo with HACS but it seems you mean this https://www.hacs.xyz/docs/use/ I guess, look there Armbian is not HA support or so. Or else ask som eAI tool for hints (and make sure you understand how to avoid hallucinations of such AI tooling).

Guation, the image has no update MTD flash option in armbian-install so I can't boot from a nvme.

I am encountering numerous errors during installation or updates; I have managed to fix some of them but still cannot resolve the error "E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)". Can anyone help me fix this?

This week's work centers on a comprehensive CI pipeline overhaul, expanded board and SoC support, and notable U-Boot and kernel modernization across Rockchip platforms. A substantial portion of the changes target CI infrastructure hardening in the new os-ci-test repository, including self-contained release handling, GHCR authentication via builtin tokens, watchdog-based auto-retry for stalled runs, proxy normalization, and sane build timeouts (60m packages, 30m/60m images). Related fixes in armbian/actions resolve datacenter runner proxy issues, while a rootfs change strips mmdebstrap's apt proxy from shipped images. Codeowners pruning of inactive maintainers and a Docker per-build image tag for parallel builds round out the developer-experience work. On the platform side, new board and SoC enablement continues with cix-p1 support, Orange Pi 4 Pro (Allwinner A733) community files, and Radxa Dragon Q6A audio, Chromium, and libbpf fixes. RK3506 and RK3506B are now split with proper ROCKUSB_BLOB handling, and Helios4 gains dual-PWM fan control on 6.18. Kernel configurations enable ATH9K_HTC, NFS client across all three kernels, and REALTEK_PHY_HWMON on rockchip64, while an RK3588 I2S MCLK regression is corrected. U-Boot modernization is broad: rk3308 boards (Rock Pi S, Rock S0) move from v2024.10 to v2026.07 with booti FDT fixes, Khadas VIM3 jumps to v2026.04, and VIM1/VIM2 receive khadas-uboot 0.17.3. The MediaTek Genio and NIO-12L platforms transition to pure mainline v7.1.y with loadaddr fixes for large kernels and initrds, and UEFI builds bump to v7.1 with Phytium dwmac rework. #Armbian #EmbeddedLinux #Rockchip #UBoot #CI Changes(#9400 P2b) Replace echo|pipe subshells with here-strings/parameter expansion. by @iav in armbian/build#9947Add AX210 firmware a0-72. by @ginkage in armbian/firmware#130Add cix-p1 support. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#9854add firmware for xiaomi-sheng. by @code002-2 in armbian/firmware#131boards: fix ayn child boards dropped from build matrix (inventory can't follow source). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10054ci(build-all): drop dispatch inputs, always run with fixed defaults. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/os-ci-test#6ci(nightly): expose only branch + version override on dispatch. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/os-ci-test#4ci(watchdog): manual trigger to re-run a run's failed jobs. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/os-ci-test#15ci: blank ambient http(s)_proxy so the runner map is authoritative. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/os-ci-test#18ci: bump build retry attempts 3 → 8. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/os-ci-test#13ci: bump softprops/action-gh-release v2 -> v3 (Node 24). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/os-ci-test#2ci: cosmetic — 'Build' job label, one-line matrix job name. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/os-ci-test#12ci: create + read releases in this repo (self-contained test CI). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/os-ci-test#1ci: DOCKER_SKIP_UPDATE=no (pull & rebuild image, safer). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/os-ci-test#21ci: drop "(cronjob)" suffix from build workflow names. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/os-ci-test#7ci: drop build retry attempts 8 -> 3. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/os-ci-test#19ci: drop the version-only assets-for-download artifact. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/os-ci-test#10ci: expose Framework build branch input on build-all. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/os-ci-test#20ci: ghcr login with builtin GITHUB_TOKEN, mirroring armbian/os. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/os-ci-test#9ci: label chunk jobs with hash-free matrix.name. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/os-ci-test#17ci: probe apt proxy before exporting it (drop stale entries). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/os-ci-test#16ci: push artifacts to org ghcr via ACCESS_TOKEN. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/os-ci-test#5ci: push OCI artifacts to armbian/os via ACCESS_TOKEN. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/os-ci-test#11ci: sane build timeouts (packages 60m, images 30m compute / 60m job). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/os-ci-test#22ci: watchdog to auto-retry runner-stalled runs. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/os-ci-test#14codeowners: drop inactive maintainers (>=365d) from PR pings. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10044Enable 1 GHz frequency for Panthor. by @ginkage in armbian/build#10067Enable 1 GHz frequency for Panthor on mainline. by @ginkage in armbian/build#10035family-rockchip: Split RK3506 / RK3506B. Add ROCKUSB_BLOB. Cleanup overrides. by @vidplace7 in armbian/build#10017firmware: download kernel before removing old (anti-brick) + repo menu badge fix. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#947Fix led trigger for nanopi 5s led-lan2. by @ruabmbua in armbian/build#10028fix(cache): show UFS as its own badge in the cache manager. by @SuperKali in armbian/imager#161fix(ci): cache real build/cache/* dirs so OCI memoization persists. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/os-ci-test#8fix(devices): hide internal/system disks from flash targets (#159). by @SuperKali in armbian/imager#160fix(docker): unique per-build image tag for parallel builds on a shared daemon. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#9878genio, nio-12l: bump to pure mainline v7.1.y + loadaddr fixes. by @rpardini in armbian/build#10034genio: u-boot: mt8195 (nio-12l): update addr's map patch for large kernels/initrds. by @rpardini in armbian/build#10039gha-matrix: add short hash-free name to matrix items for job labels. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10053gha: DOCKER_SKIP_UPDATE=no. by @rpardini in armbian/os#476git-ref2info: support gitproxy (git_cdn) source for Makefile version fetch. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10066HOTFIX runner-clean: only clear proxy env, never set it to acng (fixes datacenter runners). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/actions#25kernel configs: enable CONFIG_ATH9K_HTC (Atheros USB wifi), DEBUGFS off. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10032kernel configs: enable NFS client on the 3 kernels that lacked it (NFS rootfs). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10042kernel/rockchip64: fix RK3588 I2S MCLK clk_disable_unused regression. by @SuperKali in armbian/build#10049khadas-vim1 / khadas-vim2: bump prebuilt u-boot blob to khadas-uboot 0.17.3. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#9994khadas-vim3: bump mainline u-boot to v2026.04. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10013maint: rewrite various patchsets. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#10012mvebu: drive both PWM fans on Helios4 (dual PWM per GPIO bank, 6.18). by @iav in armbian/build#10021mvebu: fix some dmesg warnings for Helios4 . by @neheb in armbian/build#10024orangepi4pro: Add community support for Orange Pi 4 Pro (Allwinner A733) [new files only]. by @shkolnik in armbian/build#9967radxa-cubie-a7z: add board image. by @shkolnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#346radxa-dragon-q6a: fix audio UCM bump, Chromium zink gate, libbpf build. by @SuperKali in armbian/build#10019Rename radxa-cubie-a7z to cubie-a7z for naming consistency. by @shkolnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#347Revert "Enable 1 GHz frequency for Panthor on mainline". by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#10048rk3308 (rockpi-s, rock-s0): u-boot v2024.10 -> v2026.07 + fix booti FDT. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10062rock-s0: drop u-boot v1.1 MMC patch that can't apply to v2026.07. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10068rockchip64-7.0: drop deprecated patchset. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#10038rockchip64: current/edge: enable REALTEK_PHY_HWMON. by @rpardini in armbian/build#10052rockchip64: enable v7.2-rc1 via bleedingedge . by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#10073rockchip64_common: collapse line-continued expansion exec to single line. by @rpardini in armbian/build#10059rootfs: strip mmdebstrap's apt proxy so it doesn't ship in the image. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10058runner-clean: normalize http(s)_proxy to runner's advertised apt proxy. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/actions#24scripts: fix js-yaml ESM default-import break in actions report. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#343stubble: add host dependencies. by @amazingfate in armbian/build#10020stubble: only add host deps when KERNEL_DO_STUBBLE=yes. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10022u-boot/legacy/u-boot-radxa-rk35xx: change a file here to force all rk vendor u-boots to rebuild. by @rpardini in armbian/build#10070u-boot: debug produced binaries with dumpimage -l as well as binwalk. by @rpardini in armbian/build#10063u-boot: v2026.04: own rk3588 blueberry & mixtile DTs (drop kernel symlinks). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10041uefi: bump to v7.1 + arm64:phytium-dwmac rework + x86:applet2. by @rpardini in armbian/build#10033View the full article