athoulmuwafiq / rpi-image-backup

Shell script to backup and restore a Raspberry Pi image from and to an sdcard

rpi-image-backup

Shell script to backup and restore a Raspberry Pi image from and to an sdcard

Purpose

This script is used to create an as-small-as-possible image dump from an sdcard containing a raspberry pi operating system. It does not use dd to dump the whole sdcard, it clone partition by partition with partclone and save the partition layout and the MBR.

Requirements

The script runs on a linux distribution of your choice. You must have the following tools installed:

• sfdisk
• partclone
• dd
• blkid

./rpi-image-backup --backup -d /dev/sdb -n scnshift -b ./backup

./rpi-image-backup --restore -d /dev/sdb -n scnshift -b ./backup/scnshift/YYYY-MM-DD