Comment on Where to start with backups?

• irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Out of curiosity, how are you doing the drive imaging?

  I wrote a script that is fired by a cron job once a month:

  sudo nano /usr/local/bin/backup_drive.sh

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  # Directory to store backups BACKUP_DIR=“/mnt/myhdd” # Drive to backup DRIVE=“/dev/sdX” # Create a timestamp TIMESTAMP=$(date +“%Y%m%d”) # Filename for the new image NEW_IMAGE=“$BACKUP_DIR/my_drive_image_$TIMESTAMP.img” # Create the image sudo dd if=$DRIVE of=$NEW_IMAGE bs=4M status=progress # Keep the last 3 images ls -tp $BACKUP_DIR/my_drive_image_*.img | grep -v ‘/$’ | tail -n +4 | xargs -I {} rm – {}

  Make the script executable:

  sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/backup_drive.sh

  Create Cron:

  sudo crontab -e

  0 3 1 * * /usr/local/bin/backup_drive.sh

  Verify cron:

  sudo crontab -l

  I’m sure it could be written differently or that there is a better way to do the imaging, but that is the extent of my notes, and it works for me.

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  • Cyber@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Ah, good old dd

    When you have some spare time, take a look at partclone - clonezilla uses it because it only backs up used blocks, not free space, so more efficient.

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    • irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Thanks for the tip. I’ll definitely check it out

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