raspiBackupDialog - a comfortable help script for raspiBackup

An agile user of raspiBackup - Franjo-G - has written a very useful little helper script called raspiBackupDialog. help script with the name raspiBackupDialog, which shows in a dialog the most important invocation options for the backup and restore in a dialog and with which then triggers raspiBackup. raspiBackup snapshots are supported. Very especially easy to perform the restore: Before the restore, the list of existing the list of existing backups is displayed and you can select which backup should be restored.

Installation and call

raspiBackupDialog is available as a helper script in the GitHub repository.

It can be downloaded to the current directory as follows:

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/framps/raspiBackup/master/scripts/raspiBackupDownloadFromGit.sh | bash -s -- master helper/raspiBackupDialog.sh

Now it can be called with :

sudo ./raspiBackupDialog.sh

If you don't want to download it every time, you can make it permanently available on your Raspberry as follows:

sudo mv ./raspiBackupDialog.sh /usr/local/bin
sudo chown root:root /usr/local/bin/raspiBackupDialog.sh

It can then be called at any time as follows:

sudo raspiBackupDialog.sh

Invocation options

sudo raspiBackupDialog.sh --select # Starts a restore. The image can be selected from a list.
sudo raspiBackupDialog.sh --last # Starts a restore from the last backup.
sudo raspiBackupDialog.sh --backup # Starts a backup.
sudo raspiBackupDialog.sh --delete # A backup can be selected for deletion.
sudo raspiBackupDialog.sh --mountfs "fstab" # The backup directory is mounted according to the fstab entry.
sudo raspiBackupDialog.sh --mountfs "*.mount" # The backup directory is mounted via systemctl start *.mount.

If the directory was already mounted, it will not be unmounted. Otherwise it will be remounted.

Dynamic mount also works with cron.

* * * * /usr/local/bin/raspiBackupDialog.sh --mountfs "backup.unit" or "fstab" --cron

Example dialog for a backup

sudo raspiBackupDialog.sh

Please choose your preferred language
German = 1
English = 2
2
Should a backup be created or an existing backup restored?
backup 1
restore 2
1
Are there more than the 2 standard partitions /boot and /root on the system drive ? y/N
n
Should a comment be inserted at the end of the backup directory?
This backup is then not included in the backup strategy and is not automatically recycled.
y/N
n
raspiBackup is now started