Backup-Pi

Backing up and Restoring your Raspberry Pi's SD Card using Raspberry Pi.

Download.

• for 8Gbyte SD card image (with 4Gbyte backup files area): http://ovh.to/5gyERsM
• for 16Gbyte SD card image (with 11Gbyte backup files area); http://ovh.to/qKZpXH4w

8th Sep, 2015: Replace link with Fixed version.

Preparation.

• Additional 8Gbyte or 16Gbyte SD card for this application, differ from buckupping SD card.
• USB SD card reader dongle.

How to install.

Download a image file mentioned above, write on the additional SD card by dd command.

How to use.

Preparation.

Prepare follows:

• USB card reader.
• "Backup Pi" installed SD card.

Setup.

1. Remove backupping SD card from RPi, and put it to the USB Card reader.

2. Put "Backup Pi" installed SD card to the RPi.

3. Put the card reader to the USB interface.

4. Finish, then start RPi.

Backup / Restor Application.

The application is running on the web. So, you can use this as follows:

• with RPi Desktop, open http://localhost by ephemeral web browser on the RPi desktop. or
• with network connecting RPi, open http://gc02.local by your PC, tablet, and other devices which can connect the RPi.

Backup.

Restore.

Files on the "Backup Pi" SD card.

Backuped file is cleating under the /boot/DATA folder. Also, restoring files are selected from this folder. You can read/write it on the "Backup Pi" SD card from Windoww, Mac and Linux PC as follows.

So, you can manage backuped files as ordinaly files. The /boot folder is expanded as FAT32, as opposed to the original Raspbian image was FAT16.