- How To Make A Dmg Raspberry Backup Mac
- How To Make A Dmg Raspberry Backup Mac
- How To Make A Dmg Raspberry Backup System
It is highly recommended that you keep regular backups of any important files. Backups are often not limited to user files; they could include configuration files, databases, installed software, settings, and even an entire snapshot of a system.
Here, we'll guide you through some backup techniques for your Raspberry Pi system.
Jan 16, 2020 Hello everyone. Welcome to the 5th episode of “Learn technology in 5 minutes” by MAKERDEMY. In this episode, we will show you how to backup and restore the micro SD card of your Raspberry. You can make an image backup using Win32 Disk Imager or other similar software like it. If you want to make a backup image of an operational system, I would advise you to use dd. An important thing to consider here is to shut down all running processes before you make the backup using dd so as to make sure nothing is being written/read from.
Home folder
A sensible way to keep your home folder backed up is to use the tar command to make a snapshot archive of the folder, and keep a copy of it on your home PC or in cloud storage. To do this, enter the following commands:
How To Make A Dmg Raspberry Backup Mac
This creates a tar archive called pi_home.tar.gz in /home/. You should copy this file to a USB stick or transfer it to another machine on your network.
MySQL
If you have MySQL databases running on your Raspberry Pi, it would be wise to keep them backed up too. To back up a single database, use the mysqldump command:
This command will back up the recipes database to the file recipes.sql. Note that, in this case, no username and password have been supplied to the mysqldump command. If you don't have your MySQL credentials in a .my.cnf configuration file in your home folder, then supply the username and password with flags:
To restore a MySQL database from a dumpfile, pipe the dumpfile into the mysql command. Provide credentials, if necessary, and the database name. Note that the database must exist, so create it first:
Alternatively, you can use the pv command to see a progress meter as the dumpfile is processed by MySQL. This is not installed by default, so install with sudo apt install pv. This command is useful for large files:
SD card image
It may be sensible for you to keep a copy of the entire SD card image, so you can restore the card if you lose it or it becomes corrupt. You can do this using the same method you'd use to write an image to a new card, but in reverse.
In Linux:
This will create an image file on your computer which you can use to write to another SD card, and keep exactly the same contents and settings. To restore or clone to another card, use dd in reverse:
These files can be very large, and compress well. To compress, you can pipe the output of dd to gzip to get a compressed file that is significantly smaller than the original size:
To restore, pipe the output of gunzip to dd:
If you are using a Mac, the commands used are almost exactly the same, but 4M in the above examples should be replaced with 4m, with a lower case letter.
See more about installing SD card images.
How To Make A Dmg Raspberry Backup Mac
Automation
How To Make A Dmg Raspberry Backup System
You could write a Bash script to perform each of these processes automatically, and even have it performed periodically using cron.