[ale] Rasberry Pi Backup Rebuild

[JD]

I've been running rdiff-backup across 20+ systems for years now. Switched from
rsync methods (rbackup/rsnapshot) and just doing mirrors (which are better than
nothing, but ... ).

http://www.kirya.net/articles/backups-using-rdiff-backup/ is the best
summary/example page I know.  Look at the remote-pull-backup.sh. Simple.
I keep 30, 60, 120 days of backups, depending on the system, risks, and required
storage. These are highly efficient backups.

I've helped folks create their own rdiff-backup script at the GA-400 LUG on
Sundays. That offer stands. After all, just using a tool to make an image is NOT
all that is needed to restore a system or to be efficient.


On 11/12/2014 08:49 AM, Jonathan Meek wrote:
> That's a great idea. Do you know of a guide for that?
> 
> I have been reading through rdiff-backup and it looks great.
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> On Nov 12, 2014 7:03 AM, "Jim Lynch" <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com
> <mailto:ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com>> wrote:
> 
>     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
>