Questions tagged [backup]
Questions about what and how to backup your Raspberry Pi
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Deja-Dup on Raspberry Pi 5b-16gb
I'm unable to get deja-dup to authenticate to my Google Drive: After launching from a non-root command line, I get this set of errors. It does NOT AUTHENTICATE to my drive! It is on both my Pi4-8 and ...
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New SSD on Raspberry PI
I am trying to add a new 8TB SSD (connected by SATA to USB Enclosure) to my Raspberry Pi 4, to use it as a Backup of my 8TB media drive from the PC. I would set this up using openmediavault. I did ...
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"Is borg working on the server?" [closed]
I'm trying to setup an automated backup system to backup my Raspberry Pi's data to my Mac Mini. However, calling neither borg init nor borg create from the RPi to the remote Mac Mini repo host seems ...
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Are backups using dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 safe and consistent?
Conventional wisdom has it that creating backups by using dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 ... from a live filesystem is prone to error. Changing a filesystem that's being copied as an image will result in a ...
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Recreate SD card from separate boot and rootfs partitions
I backed up my SD card incorrectly. Instead of making a full copy of the SD card I backed up the boot and rootfs partitions separately. How do I recreate the SD card image with the separate files? ...
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Rescue file from backup
I made test backup from my Raspberry sd-card to usb-stick using SD Card Copier and now i need to rescue one text file from it. Earlier when i plugged it in, it said "unrecognized format" or ...
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How to backup entire Raspberry pi SD card over network?
There are several questions like this but they are a bit old. I have a pi zero running Raspbian. The pi is enclosed in a metal case (don't worry, it's vented) and I can only access the SD card by ...
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e2fsck on Raspberry Pis
I need to run e2fsck on the raspberry pi, because I want to create a shrinked Backup. I have mounted an external server inside /mnt/BACKUP. There I have created an bash script. It will first create a ...
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