Hi All,
I just wanted to say that although this thread was started back in 2019, and it continues through 2025 is awesome for info. I have not read through all the posts yet, and it appears I do not need to although I will anyway, it worked right away for me with just what I got doing a couple of searches. The last search being where the github was and I found that. So I got whatever updated version of Ron's tools and it was just WAY too simple!
I wasn't expecting it to work so easily either. My setup is on a pi5 with USB boot on a 500gb 3 partition SSD. The boot is partition 1, OS partition 2 sized to 32gb, and the extra free space is exFat formatted partition 3. I was going to go with ext4 on the extra partition 3 but wanted to be able to access it from Windows if I needed to plug it into my laptop. I might redo that to ext4 though on my next try.
Anyway, I wanted a solution that would backup the OS without a clone image, and store that backup on the extra space partition 3 so I can pull it to my backup NAS (#2) with a cron job. The scripts did the initial one perfectly! I still have to setup my Samba (before installing OMV) so I have not pulled the image to burn it to an SD card to try it, but the results so far are as expected with no errors or rabbit holes to have to crawl down under. I wish I knew about this wonderful script package back when Ron put it out.
If I were to have a question, and yes I did search as best I could, is it possible to resize the image to include more or less extra space for incremental updates? I did the initial 5gb from the first example I found which yielded a 8gb image, again, as expected. But what if it turns out to not be enough (or too excessive) down the road? Would I just have to do another full backup with an adjusted extra free space parameter or is it possible with this suite of scripts?
If this has been addressed, I would appreciate it if you could just link the post in this massive thread. And I apologize.
Thanks again for this awesome set of scripts that I think should be part of the standard PI OS LITE image!!
Have a great week! And thank you for your time!
I just wanted to say that although this thread was started back in 2019, and it continues through 2025 is awesome for info. I have not read through all the posts yet, and it appears I do not need to although I will anyway, it worked right away for me with just what I got doing a couple of searches. The last search being where the github was and I found that. So I got whatever updated version of Ron's tools and it was just WAY too simple!
I wasn't expecting it to work so easily either. My setup is on a pi5 with USB boot on a 500gb 3 partition SSD. The boot is partition 1, OS partition 2 sized to 32gb, and the extra free space is exFat formatted partition 3. I was going to go with ext4 on the extra partition 3 but wanted to be able to access it from Windows if I needed to plug it into my laptop. I might redo that to ext4 though on my next try.
Anyway, I wanted a solution that would backup the OS without a clone image, and store that backup on the extra space partition 3 so I can pull it to my backup NAS (#2) with a cron job. The scripts did the initial one perfectly! I still have to setup my Samba (before installing OMV) so I have not pulled the image to burn it to an SD card to try it, but the results so far are as expected with no errors or rabbit holes to have to crawl down under. I wish I knew about this wonderful script package back when Ron put it out.
If I were to have a question, and yes I did search as best I could, is it possible to resize the image to include more or less extra space for incremental updates? I did the initial 5gb from the first example I found which yielded a 8gb image, again, as expected. But what if it turns out to not be enough (or too excessive) down the road? Would I just have to do another full backup with an adjusted extra free space parameter or is it possible with this suite of scripts?
If this has been addressed, I would appreciate it if you could just link the post in this massive thread. And I apologize.
Thanks again for this awesome set of scripts that I think should be part of the standard PI OS LITE image!!
Have a great week! And thank you for your time!
Statistics: Posted by HopWorks — Tue Jan 07, 2025 9:23 pm