Manual installation and configuration

Installation with the Installer is the fastest method. You can also install raspiBackup very quickly in a standard installation using the command line. However, if you want to install raspiBackup manually for various reasons, you will find the necessary steps below:

Prerequisites: Login as user pi to the home directory and an active network connection.

1. The raspiBackup installer is downloaded and started in /usr/local/bin on the Raspberry and invoked. Thereby raspiBackup is installed with its standard options. You can then start raspiBackup with sudo raspiBackupInstallUI and update the default configuration.

    curl -sSLO https://www.linux-tips-and-tricks.de/raspiBackupInstallUI.sh; sudo bash ./raspiBackupInstallUI.sh -i
   

2. You can also download and install raspiBackup manually.

   1. Download the necessary files:

      curl -sSLO https://www.linux-tips-and-tricks.de/raspiBackup.sh
      curl -sSLO https://www.linux-tips-and-tricks.de/raspiBackupInstallUI.sh
      curl -sSL https://www.linux-tips-and-tricks.de/raspiBackup_de.conf > raspiBackup.conf
      

   2. Now the files must be copied into the corresponding directories and ownership and access rights must be adjusted:

      # Move the files to the correct directories
      sudo mv raspiBackup.sh /usr/local/bin
      sudo mv raspiBackupInstallUI.sh /usr/local/bin
      sudo mv raspiBackup.conf /usr/local/etc
      
      # Customize ownership and access rights
      sudo chown root:root /usr/local/bin/raspiBackup.sh
      sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/raspiBackup.sh
      sudo chown root:root /usr/local/etc/raspiBackup.conf
      sudo chmod 600 /usr/local/etc/raspiBackup.conf
      
      # Create the shortcuts without .sh at the end
      sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/raspiBackup.sh /usr/local/bin/raspiBackup
      sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/raspiBackupInstallUI.sh /usr/local/bin/raspiBackupInstallUI
      

   3. Now the installer can be invoked with sudo raspiBackupInstallUI and raspiBackup can be configured.

3. A restore of a backup should then be carried out, to familiarize yourself with how to restore the backup and to test the backup. test the backup. There is nothing more annoying if, at the time when you need the backup, you realize that the backup does not contain everything or is even even unusable.

If you want to install raspiBackup on a system that does not have internet access, you must run 2.1 on a system that has an internet connection. Then copy the files to the target system and run 2.2 and 2.3 there. However, you must bear in mind that no notifications can be sent and you get no notifications from raspiBackup for new versions.