Backups saved me for a recent "critical network" pi installation. I think a lot of us just build our pi's and think we'll rebuild them if they fail but it's great to just continue from a backup if one gets bricked for some reason. Thanks for the reminder.
Rebuilding is fairly easy but time consuming. It can also be annoying when you can't remember that one little tweak you did to get something working. More often than not, backups save me from myself :-)
I spent two days adding changes and trying to figure out how to get a mobilinkd TNC3 to work. Never did figure it out but came to the realization that I should have backed up my system before changing anything. Lol. Started fresh by formatting the ad card, downloading the latest pi OS using your tutorial. Then ordered the fancy case and SSD that you had listed. Should show up today and that little pi will be cooking with mustard. Thank you for your videos. The help is priceless.
Thank you for the video. I find this a handy way to make a back up but I could not back up to a smaller SD card from a larger SD card. The data was more than small enough to fit but the backup would not work.
Thank you once again for a clear vid on an important topic. I would have liked to see you then address going from one of these backups and re-constituting a Pi. Basically, restoring from a backup.
nice rehash of backing up sd card (or ssd drive) unlike the automated version which for me never really worked well kept getting errors but this works ...
Question: Is that a bootable backup? I.e, My current system is only using the micro-sd card and if I do backup and then it crashes, what do I need to do to get the PI back up and running?
Hey KM4CK, how about a challenge: Using Raspberry 0 w as your main PC for a day or three? I'm sugesting this because in 2012, Chris from Explaining Computers used Rpi2 as his PC for a week. Now in 2021, covid made more jobs change to the online model, and here in Brazil the prices of computers got very high. As i'm using my Rpi4 for main computer for a whole year, ive had a really good experience on manjaro with sway etc. Many wonder what can be used or not in Rpi0w, so this test could be great. Some details to make the sugestion working: -SYSTEM: raspberry OS. Maybe you get a better experience with arch, dietPi or even Gentoo idk. -DESKTOP ENVIROMENT: change the LXDE to sway or i3 (novaspirit has a great tutorial on this). Maybe 540p resolution would be better -PROGRAMS: abiword instead of libreoffice, gimp?, firefox with lightweight extensions or some terminal browser (i can sugest more tips on this topic) -HARDWARE RECOMENDATIONS: SSD or HD with external powering instead of the microSD memory, a good microSD or even leepspvideo's PiSafe's eMMC to boot, keyboard with dongle, cable management, and of course a great usb hub or the GPIO shild with more USBs, overclock and a little heatsink -CHALLENGES: try typing some text, light image and audio editing, youtube playback with h264ify or pasting the link in vlc, gaming (even light PS1 games works), benchmarks, light versions of sites like gmail and facebook, video or audio conferences, multitasking in general with htop, wine, DRM, ssh, cmatrix of course, etc
@@KM4ACK Yeah… OK. Makes sense. Now to get the Pi to boot from the USB thumb drive. Tried that yesterday. Not sure why it wasn’t working. Might have to connect it to a HDMI tv/monitor to see what’s going on. It wasn’t working headless.
This works on a headless system as well. Log in through VNC and run as shown in the video. If you are running a headless setup without the GUI, you can use the dd command. www.geeksforgeeks.org/dd-command-linux/
@@KM4ACK I figured it out. I logged on as root. No matter what user pi doesn't have access to delete files for some reason. I had to delete rpitx and get a different version
Thanks for this video and reply to my comment on the previous video on RPi Imager. IS there an easy way to back up my RPi to a SD card that is bootable via SSH in case there is no desktop access? 73 de Arnie W8DU
@@KM4ACK I was probably not clear on what I was asking for. I am looking for a way to make a backup via SSH, and which backup would be bootable. I have some RPis that do not have desktop installed but would still like to be able to back them up via SSH connection. Tnx de Arnie W8DU
Backups saved me for a recent "critical network" pi installation. I think a lot of us just build our pi's and think we'll rebuild them if they fail but it's great to just continue from a backup if one gets bricked for some reason. Thanks for the reminder.
Rebuilding is fairly easy but time consuming. It can also be annoying when you can't remember that one little tweak you did to get something working. More often than not, backups save me from myself :-)
I spent two days adding changes and trying to figure out how to get a mobilinkd TNC3 to work. Never did figure it out but came to the realization that I should have backed up my system before changing anything. Lol. Started fresh by formatting the ad card, downloading the latest pi OS using your tutorial. Then ordered the fancy case and SSD that you had listed. Should show up today and that little pi will be cooking with mustard. Thank you for your videos. The help is priceless.
I have a video on getting the mobilinkd setup. Search my channel and you should be able to find it.
This is really great and simplest way to take your memory card backup..thanks for sharing this information.
Thank you for the video. I find this a handy way to make a back up but I could not back up to a smaller SD card from a larger SD card. The data was more than small enough to fit but the backup would not work.
Thank you once again for a clear vid on an important topic. I would have liked to see you then address going from one of these backups and re-constituting a Pi. Basically, restoring from a backup.
Restoration is easy. Just put the backup card in the pi and boot 😀 you will be back up and running and can create a new backup.
Thanks for the info. It’s a good idea to backup frequently!!!
Thanks for sharing this video and information
Thanks Jason
Great info as always. Thanks.
I’m running ubuntu server lts on the card though. Can’t use GUI
nice rehash of backing up sd card (or ssd drive) unlike the automated version which for me never really worked well kept getting errors but this works ...
Question: Is that a bootable backup? I.e, My current system is only using the micro-sd card and if I do backup and then it crashes, what do I need to do to get the PI back up and running?
Yes. It is a bootable backup. If the pi crashes, boot from the backup card and then use it to create a new backup.
Thanks for the information. But could you tell us about the restore. What does is the procedure to do it? Sorry by me bad English...best regards 73
To restore, insert the backup card into the Pi and boot. Then create a new backup image on a new card. 73, de KM4ACK
@@KM4ACK ok thanks a lot.
Do we have to take the USB drive to our laptop to create a new MicroSD card image? What is the best way to do a restore?
The backup can be created on the pi itself. To restore, just boot from the backup disk. It’s an exact copy.
Sorry if I missed it, but do you have a recommended ssd drive for the pi? Preferably a compact one in case it goes to the field.
This is the one I used in my last build amzn.to/3vrR8as
@@KM4ACK thanks!
dos that make an exact duplicate and how would you resort that to the pi?
Yes. It makes an exact duplicate of the SD card. If the first SD fails, eject it and insert the backup card. Apply power and you are back in business.
Hey KM4CK, how about a challenge: Using Raspberry 0 w as your main PC for a day or three?
I'm sugesting this because in 2012, Chris from Explaining Computers used Rpi2 as his PC for a week. Now in 2021, covid made more jobs change to the online model, and here in Brazil the prices of computers got very high. As i'm using my Rpi4 for main computer for a whole year, ive had a really good experience on manjaro with sway etc. Many wonder what can be used or not in Rpi0w, so this test could be great. Some details to make the sugestion working:
-SYSTEM: raspberry OS. Maybe you get a better experience with arch, dietPi or even Gentoo idk.
-DESKTOP ENVIROMENT: change the LXDE to sway or i3 (novaspirit has a great tutorial on this). Maybe 540p resolution would be better
-PROGRAMS: abiword instead of libreoffice, gimp?, firefox with lightweight extensions or some terminal browser (i can sugest more tips on this topic)
-HARDWARE RECOMENDATIONS: SSD or HD with external powering instead of the microSD memory, a good microSD or even leepspvideo's PiSafe's eMMC to boot, keyboard with dongle, cable management, and of course a great usb hub or the GPIO shild with more USBs, overclock and a little heatsink
-CHALLENGES: try typing some text, light image and audio editing, youtube playback with h264ify or pasting the link in vlc, gaming (even light PS1 games works), benchmarks, light versions of sites like gmail and facebook, video or audio conferences, multitasking in general with htop, wine, DRM, ssh, cmatrix of course, etc
Now do you have a video on doing the opposite? Copying your backup back to the Raspberry Pi to restore from that backup point? I think I broke my Pi.
You simply take the backup card and put it in the Pi. Then boot and create a new backup.
@@KM4ACK Yeah… OK. Makes sense. Now to get the Pi to boot from the USB thumb drive. Tried that yesterday. Not sure why it wasn’t working. Might have to connect it to a HDMI tv/monitor to see what’s going on. It wasn’t working headless.
What about a headless system?
This works on a headless system as well. Log in through VNC and run as shown in the video. If you are running a headless setup without the GUI, you can use the dd command. www.geeksforgeeks.org/dd-command-linux/
I was thinking that you could how swap and back up to the blank micro SD
I downloaded you ham radio software from Github, how do I log in so I can delete some files? It said permission denied
You log into the pi with your user name/password. If you haven't changed it, it will be pi/raspberry
@@KM4ACK I figured it out. I logged on as root. No matter what user pi doesn't have access to delete files for some reason.
I had to delete rpitx and get a different version
Good 👍
Thanks for this video and reply to my comment on the previous video on RPi Imager. IS there an easy way to back up my RPi to a SD card that is bootable via SSH in case there is no desktop access?
73 de Arnie W8DU
If you have SSH enabled when you create the backup, it will be enabled on the backup card.
@@KM4ACK I was probably not clear on what I was asking for. I am looking for a way to make a backup via SSH, and which backup would be bootable.
I have some RPis that do not have desktop installed but would still like to be able to back them up via SSH connection.
Tnx de Arnie W8DU