BackupPi

This is a fork of the famous https://github.com/dmpop/little-backup-box from dmpop.

A bash shell scripts that transforms your Raspberry Pi (or any single-board computer running a Debian-based Linux distribution) into an inexpensive, fully-automatic, pocketable data backup device.

IMPORTANT BackupPi is designed to work with USB sticks as backup media. Theoretically, it’s possible to make Little Backup Box work with an external hard disk, but this setup is not officially supported.

Installation

1. Create a bootable SD card with the latest version of Raspbian Lite for use with BackupPi.
2. Make sure that your Raspberry Pi is connected to the internet.
3. Run the following command on the Raspberry Pi: curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/danielschmalhofer/BackupPi/master/install-backuppi.sh | bash

BackupPi supports three operation modes:

• sync all data from one USB drive to another Automatically backs up the contents of a storage card to an external storage device (eg. USB Stick or USB HDD (untested, tell if it works please!:)).
• backup your camera to the drive SD Card of this Pi Transfers photos, raw files, and videos from the camera connected directly to the Raspberry Pi. The transferred files are saved in the /home/pi/BACKUP/[CAMERA MODEL] directory on the system storage card. Important Make sure that the camera is set to the MTP USB connection mode.
• remote control what I do my WIFI/LAN interface Provides a simple web interface to manually choose one of the two modes described above.

During the installation, choose the desired mode from the selection dialog.

When prompted, reboot the Raspberry Pi.

Usage

The exact steps depend on the operational mode.

sync all data from one USB drive to another

1. Boot the Raspberry Pi
2. Plug in a backup storage device
3. Insert a storage card into a card reader and plug it into the Raspberry Pi
4. Wait till the Raspberry Pi shuts down

Note: To differentiate between different storage cards, the backup script creates a datetime-based .id file in the root of each storage card. The name of the .id file is also used as the destination backup folder on the storage device.

backup your camera to the drive SD Card of this Pi

1. Boot the Raspberry Pi
2. Connect the camera to the Raspberry Pi
3. Turn the camera on
4. Wait till the Raspberry Pi shuts down

remote control what I do my WIFI/LAN interface

1. Point the browser to http://[IP-ADDRESS]:8080 (replace [IP-ADDRESS] with the actual IP address of the Raspberry Pi)
2. Start the desired backup mode by pressing the appropriate button.

The remote control mode gives you access to the Device backup action that backs up the /home/pi/BACKUP folder on the Raspberry Pi to an external storage device. This can be useful when you transfer files in the camera backup mode, and later want to back up the transferred files to a external storage device.

Problems?

Please report bugs and issues in the Issues section.

Contribute

If you’ve found a bug or have a suggestion for improvement, open an issue in the Issues section.

To add a new feature or fix issues yourself, follow the following steps.

1. Fork the project’s repository repository
2. Create a feature branch using the git checkout -b new-feature command
3. Add your new feature or fix bugs and run the git commit -am 'Add a new feature' command to commit changes
4. Push changes using the git push origin new-feature command
5. Submit a pull request

Author

Dmitri Popov dmpop@linux.com

little changes in the description

danielschmalhofer.net

License

The GNU General Public License version 3

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