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Other useful utilities

In the meantime, various auxiliary programs for raspiBackup have been developed. These are not officially supported and are intended as examples for your own utilities and can be adapted to your own requirements.

They are available for download on GitHub:

  1. raspiBackupWrapper.sh: This can be used to execute before and after raspiBackup various things. The code already mounts the backup partition and unmounts it if it was not mounted before. It some bash script knowledge is necessary to customize the script to your needs. customize the script.

    Note This script was created when raspiBackup had no extension points. Normally it is sufficient to use the existing extension points to extend the functionality of raspiBackup for your own needs.

  2. raspiBackupNfsWrapper.sh: The script checks whether an NFS server is available is available and only then starts raspiBackup. Apart from a few definitions of the NFS server, nothing needs to be adjusted.

  3. raspiBackupRestore2Image.sh: This script can be used to restore a tar or rsync backup, which was created in normal backup mode, into a dd backup can be converted. In addition, pishrink is used to minimize the size of the dd image as much as possible. kmbach suggested the creation of the script. The script does not require any changes.

  4. raspiImageMail.sh: This script was created by the raspiBackup user kmbach because he wanted to receive an eMail at the end of the call of raspiBackupRestore2Image.sh. at the end of the call. The raspiBackup eMail configuration parameters are used for this purpose. The script does not require any changes.

  5. raspiBackupAndClone.sh: This script creates a backup version with raspiBackup and then restores the current backup to a connected device. This way you always have a current backup system after the backup, from which you can boot, if the system device has been corrupted. If you use the partition-oriented backup with rsync, the restore is only a synchronization of the changes to the previous state and this is much faster than a full restore with tar or dd.

    Note: If the system no longer boots due to any misconfiguration, the cloned backup will of course not help, as it contains the same misconfiguration. In this case you have to restore an manually restore an older, still functioning backup.

  6. raspiBackupAndJSON.sh: If you want to examine the messages generated by raspiBackup after the backup, can use this script to generate the messages in JSON format and parse them and parse them much easier, e.g. with jq.

  7. raspiBackupDialog.sh: This script created by Franjo is a raspiBackup upstream script with which backups can be created more easily. script with which backups can be created and restored more easily. Details can be found in the chapter raspiBackupDialog - a convenient helper script for raspiBackup.

User-written extensions

There are also Extensions, written by raspiBackup users and made generally available in the *raspiBackup available in the raspiBackup repository via PR. Further own extensions will be added via PR.