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Backing-up Single Board Computer (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Krafting@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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 !

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[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

one of the benefits of things like docker is creating a very lightweight configuration, and keeping it separate from your data.

ive setup things so i only need to rsync my data and configs. everything else can be rebuilt. i would classify this as 'disaster recovery'.

some people reeeeally want that old school, bare-metal restore. which i have to admit, i stopped attempting years ago. i dont need the 'high availability' of entire system imaging for my personal shit.

rsync is your friend. its ubiquitous.

[–] Krafting@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Do you have tips to save multiple location, as I also have non-docker configs to backup in /etc and /home, how do you do it ? just multiple rsync command in a sh script file with cron executing it periodically ? or is there a way to backup multiple folder with one command ?