[ale] Rasberry Pi Backup Rebuild

[Jonathan Meek]

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> 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
>>
>>
>>
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