Hello everyone!

I have a small OrangePi running some small services on it (some with Docker and some without Docker).

And I’d love to know how do you backup your single-board computers.

Do you just rsync the system to a storage server ? Do you plug in a USB drive and rsync on it ? Do you save only the important data or the whole system ?

For now my SBC is not backed-up and I’d like to get a good backup solution up and running quickly! (I don’t trust SD cards to last long…)

I have access to USB drives and disks and also another big server with 20TB of storage which I can make the backup to if needed!

Thanks for your help !

  • Cenzorrll@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    You don’t need to pop it out to DD the SD card, you can do it while it’s running. I like to pipe DD through gzip to get a compressed image as the output so I’m not sitting on 16gb file for 3gb worth of files.

    • bartolomeo@suppo.fiEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      That sounds really good but is that safe to do? I thought you shouldn’t dd a disk if there was some activity going on on it.

      So is the output image saved to the SD card or do you save it to an external drive?