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Deja-Dup on Raspberry Pi 5b-16gb
I'm unable to get deja-dup to authenticate to my Google Drive:
After launching from a non-root command line, I get this set of errors.
It does NOT AUTHENTICATE to my drive! It is on both my Pi4-8 and ...
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Failure to boot after sd card clone
I have a RPi 4B - it is installed in a 3D printer.
The image I am using has two partitions - bootfs (256 MiB) and rootfs (remaining space). There is ~4MB of unallocated space at the start, not sure if ...
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New SSD on Raspberry PI
I am trying to add a new 8TB SSD (connected by SATA to USB Enclosure) to my Raspberry Pi 4, to use it as a Backup of my 8TB media drive from the PC. I would set this up using openmediavault.
I did ...
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Safe method for SD backup and recovery on a Mac
I have tried several methods on my Mac to backup and recover an image of the SDs on my raspis. The only method that has consistently proved to work for me is the "dd" from Mac terminal. The ...
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"Is borg working on the server?" [closed]
I'm trying to setup an automated backup system to backup my Raspberry Pi's data to my Mac Mini. However, calling neither borg init nor borg create from the RPi to the remote Mac Mini repo host seems ...
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Can I capture photo and video uploads on my network?
Brand new to the community but will be setting up pi hole this week on a pi zero w. I have an Android phone and am backing up all my photos and videos to Google photos. Wondering if I can somehow use ...
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Are backups using dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 safe and consistent?
Conventional wisdom has it that creating backups by using dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 ... from a live filesystem is prone to error. Changing a filesystem that's being copied as an image will result in a ...
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Timeshift does not work on pi4
I really like timeshift for backup and restore because it's simple, works well, and I can store the backup locally. I have not been able to get it to work on a pi though. When installed from apt ...
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Recreate SD card from separate boot and rootfs partitions
I backed up my SD card incorrectly. Instead of making a full copy of the SD card I backed up the boot and rootfs partitions separately. How do I recreate the SD card image with the separate files?
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How to manage installed apps, settings, and other tweaks (back-ups)
I use my Pi for a couple things:
SSH
VNC
SMB + mini dlna
Game streaming
I have also installed some stuff on it like pihole. I might wanna start using it for hass.io as well at some point; perhaps ...
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Rescue file from backup
I made test backup from my Raspberry sd-card to usb-stick using SD Card Copier and now i need to rescue one text file from it.
Earlier when i plugged it in, it said "unrecognized format" or ...
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Cloning my Raspberry Pi OS without an SD card [duplicate]
I'm running this OS version on my raspberry pi version 4 ...
# uname -a
Linux raspberrypi 5.10.17-v7l+ #1421 SMP Thu May 27 14:00:13 BST 2021 armv7l GNU/Linux
I want to clone my current OS into a ...
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How to backup entire Raspberry pi SD card over network?
There are several questions like this but they are a bit old.
I have a pi zero running Raspbian. The pi is enclosed in a metal case (don't worry, it's vented) and I can only access the SD card by ...
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How to clone a Pi that has flash instead of an SD card
I'm working with the Pi CM3+, which has 32GB of flash memory (at least my specific one does). While of course it needed an image on an SD card to initially boot, since then it has been operating ...
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e2fsck on Raspberry Pis
I need to run e2fsck on the raspberry pi, because I want to create a shrinked Backup. I have mounted an external server inside /mnt/BACKUP. There I have created an bash script. It will first create a ...
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