[ale] Rasberry Pi Backup Rebuild

[Jim Lynch]

Instead of using the  SD  card for backup, I bought an inexpensive USB 
500 GB drive and only use the SD card for the initial boot.  The OS and 
all backup files are on the USB drive.

Seems to work fine.  I think I've had it running for a year or more.   I 
replaced the original 256 Mb Pi with a 512 Mb recently.

Jim.
On 11/06/2014 09:38 PM, Jonathan Meek wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> I have a Raspberry Pi that I was using as a backup solution for my 
> stuff. Recently, the Pi somehow quit booting into OS.
>
> Literally, didn't realize my backups were not happening until I went 
> to wipe the computer and double-checked the backup to see what my 
> latest backups were before wiping the system :)
>
> I was using deja-dup to point to the Pi over the network using SSH to 
> do my backups. Deja-dup just said it completed the job but never 
> indicated it couldn't contact the host.
>
> So my question is how do I move forward in using this RPi as a backup 
> solution but avoid a repeat of this 'near-miss' I just had.
>
> EXTRA INFO: I am using the same SD card just re-formatted, the card 
> itself seemed fine but for some reason lost the boot partition from 
> one of the config files.
>
> Jonathan
>
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