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Introduction

A regular backup of Raspberry Pis is important in case of a failure of the system storage device (SD card, USB disk, SSD, NVMe ...) or also of unintentional changes that cause the system to no longer boot or to boot incorrectly, to be able to reset the system to a previous state.

raspiBackup creates a system backup of a Raspberry Pi while the system is running. This can be done manually or automatically at regular intervals. A backup always contains the entire system, i.e. system data and user data. The system therefore reboots immediately once it has been restored.

For installation and configuration of raspiBackup there is an installer, with which the most important options of raspiBackup can be easily and quickly configured. options of raspiBackup, comparable to raspi-config. More specific settings can be made in a configuration file.

All functions and applications of raspiBackup are described in the first chapter Function overview.

Further topics on this page:

Introductory video and Youtube channel

There is an introductory video for raspiBackup on Youtube.

Topics covered are

  • Introduction of raspiBackup with its most important features
  • Visit to the most important websites for raspiBackup
  • Introduction of GitHub as a question and problem interaction tool
  • Live installation of raspiBackup with the menu-driven installer

The slides used there can be downloaded for reading here.

Many more videos on all kinds of raspiBackup topics can be found in the raspiBackup-Channel.

Contact options

  • Click GitHub, to create questions or problems about raspiBackup as "Issues" on GitHub. The issues can also be created in German. This way you can track questions and problem reports and receive a notification about answers. That's the preferred contact method.

  • Click Facebook, to find out about current activities and peripheral information about raspiBackup on Facebook. Questions about raspiBackup are also possible. Please only report problems in GitHub.

  • Click Twitter, to follow raspiBackup on Twitter.

  • Click RaspberryForum, to ask questions about Raspberry backups in general and raspiBackup in particular or to read existing threads about raspiBackup in the German RaspberryForum.

  • Click Reddit, to follow raspiBackup on Reddit.

Note

Any other communication channels such as e-mails, which are unfortunately often used, will be ignored!

Donations

Acknowledgment of the development and maintenance effort as well as support for raspiBackup is welcome and possible as follows:

  1. Become a GitHub sponsor for raspiBackup
  2. Paypal: The email framp att linux-tips-and-tricks dott de is known to PayPal and anyone with a PayPal account can tip this email.
  3. Neither: Just ask at the above eMail. There is certainly an alternative. For example, donations have been sent several times in the the good old way by letter :-)

The donation is primarily used to buy consumables such as SD cards, adapters, cables etc., needed for development and testing. If the donations are sufficient, new hardware is also purchased in order to build the necessary hardware support into raspiBackup and to verify the correct functionality on the new hardware.

Acknowledgements

Over the years, many people from the community have contributed to raspiBackup through comments, suggestions and beta and fixed tests to raspiBackup. Due to the large number of contributors, it is unfortunately not possible to list every single one.

Therefore simply: Many thanks to all supporters!

Special thanks go to simonz for setting up this raspiBackup documentation repository in GitHub, the transfer of all raspiBackup pages from framps Homepage to this repository and the intensive support during the revision of the pages of the pages with help and advice as well as very helpful tools.

The code of raspiBackup is available under the GPL on GitHub.

Disclaimer

raspiBackup was created for personal use and, as it proved to be very useful, made available to the general public.

The correct functionality is tested as far as possible but it cannot be ruled out that errors in raspiBackup the expected functionality is not guaranteed. Anyone using raspiBackup does so at their own risk.

The creator of raspiBackup is in no way liable for any malfunction of the script.