OPTION-1
Without installing the software raspiBackup on your RPi.
(1) On Windows computer do following:
- Create a folder rpi-clone to hold the cloned img files
- Enable Network Sharing
- Grant sharing permission to folder rpi-clone
For items (1) above, please see detailed instructions here:
Option One: Create a Share on Windows and Access It From Linux
(2) On RPi, create a folder /home/pi/windows and mounted on it Windows shared folder rpi-clone.
Code:
## IP address of Windows PC = 192.168.0.10
## User name of Windows PC = abcd
## Shared folder on Windows PC = rpi-clone
## Mount-point folder on RPi = /home/pi/windows
sudo mkdir /home/pi/windows
sudo apt-get install cifs-utils
## In command below, replace:
## 192.168.0.10 by IP of your Windows computer
## abcd by your user name on Windows computer
sudo mount.cifs //192.168.0.10/rpi-clone /home/pi/windows -o user=abcd
Password for [email protected]//192.168.0.10/rpi-clone: ********
(3) Download and Run Script raspiBackup.sh
Downloaded and run the raspiBackup script by following commands
Code:
curl -sSLO https://www.linux-tips-and-tricks.de/raspiBackup.sh
sudo bash ./raspiBackup.sh -a : -o : -m detailed /home/pi/windows.
The details of options (-a : -o : -m detailed ) in the 2nd command above are as below:
(a) Save cloned image in folder /home/pi/windows
(b) Use dd
(c) Use compression
(d) Output in terminal, the progress status during execution
(4) Following is the output of running the script raspiBackup.sh
Code:
--- RBK0009I: raspberrypi: raspiBackup.sh V0.6.6 (7989828) started at Sat 26 Dec 2020 06:36:40 PM EST.
--- RBK0031I: Checking whether a new version of raspiBackup.sh is available.
--- RBK0151I: Using backuppath /home/pi/windows with partition type cifs.
!!! RBK0157W: No services to stop.
--- RBK0085I: Backup of type dd started. Please be patient.
7948+1 records in
7948+1 records out
7948206080 bytes (7.9 GB, 7.4 GiB) copied, 733.158 s, 10.8 MB/s
--- RBK0078I: Backup time: 00:12:14.
--- RBK0159I: 3 backups kept for dd backup type. Please be patient.
--- RBK0033I: Please wait until cleanup has finished.
--- RBK0049I: Messages saved in /home/pi/windows/raspberrypi/raspberrypi-dd-backup-20201226-183640/raspiBackup.msg.
--- RBK0026I: Debug logfile saved in /home/pi/windows/raspberrypi/raspberrypi-dd-backup-20201226-183640/raspiBackup.log.
--- RBK0010I: raspberrypi: raspiBackup.sh V0.6.6 (7989828) stopped at Sat 26 Dec 2020 06:49:03 PM EST with rc 0.
--- RBK0017I: Backup finished successfully.
(5) Check folder rpi-clone on Windows computer
(6) Verify that backup is OK
- Write the backup image on Windows computer on a SPARE microSD card.
- Shutdown RPi and slip-out its microSD card.
- Slip-in the spare microSD card (on which you have written tthe backup image.
- Power up and verify that the backup image is OK.
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