Samba? pisafe.tmp?

[ST33LDI9ITAL]

Hi there, first I'd just like to say thank you for making sd/pi-safe. They are awesome.

Will it work with copying root/active distro to a remote samba share?

Also, why does it create pisafe.tmp in every directory it's ran from?

[RichardMidnight]

I think it will work to a samba share... really any available folder.

The pisafe.tmp file is a crude way to see if you are running the current version. It downloads pisafe from the GitHub to pisafe.tmp, then runs it to get the most current version. I suppose I should delete automatically ...

Peace...

[MardukNT]

@ST33LDI9ITAL
From personal experience, yes it is possible to backup to a remote samba/cifs share using PiSafe.
I currently use PiSafe to backup the 'root/active distro' running on my RPi-4b, up to a Synology NAS shared folder.

Here's an example of what switches I use in /etc/fstab on the Pi, to help automount the remote samba/cifs share: //IP.OF.MY.NAS/RPi4-Backups /mnt/synology cifs vers=3.1.1,_netdev,credentials=/home/pi/.nascreds,uid=pi,gid=pi,x-systemd.automount 0 0
Note: The credentials=/home/pi/.nascreds switch is pointing to a text file that contains the two strings of: 'username=' and 'password=' which are needed for authenticating to the samba/cifs share on the Synology.
Note: Change string values to suit your needs.

For PiSafe itself, I'm using this command string to help me capture a backup of the core/active OS on demand and save it up to the network. pisafe backup /dev/sda /mnt/synology/RPiOSLite-BU_'date +"%m-%d-%Y_%I%M%P"'.img.gz
Note: Change string values as needed.

Hope that helps.

[ST33LDI9ITAL]

Got it goin, love it!

[RichardMidnight]

Should be resolved in v 1.0.2