Open source · GPL-3.0 Latest release v0.7.4
raspiBackup creates regular, unattended full system backups of your Raspberries and maintains a configurable backup history. Restore a backup and your system boots right away.
Install – just run this in a terminal:
curl -sSLO --fail https://raw.githubusercontent.com/framps/raspiBackup/master/published/raspiBackupInstallUI.sh && sudo bash ./raspiBackupInstallUI.sh
Features
From the first installation to a restore in an emergency – raspiBackup covers the complete lifecycle of your backups.
No more manual backups – a regular backup is never forgotten again. Either the two Raspberry Pi OS partitions are saved (normal backup mode) or any configurable set of partitions (partition-oriented backup mode), so dedicated data partitions can be included as well.
Install and configure the major options just like raspi-config – in English, German, Finnish, Chinese or French – and create your first backup in 5 minutes. All the more sophisticated options are described in the documentation.
Backup types dd and tar create full backups. Backup type rsync creates incremental backups and saves time and space. Whatever type you use, a restored system boots immediately.
Keep a fixed number of recent backups, or use the grandfather-father-son strategy (smart recycle) to maintain a long backup history with minimal space.
Since release 0.7.3, raspiBackup can create a clone on a locally connected device after every backup (option --clone). If your system fails, simply boot from the clone – no time-consuming restore required, minimal downtime. With rsync the clone is updated in no time. How to set up the clone.
Create a snapshot with a comment before major updates or installations. If something goes wrong or the system no longer boots, restore the snapshot and continue from there instead of starting from scratch.
Receive the result of every backup run by e-mail, Telegram, Pushover or Slack. Smileys show success 🙂 or failure 🙁 at a glance – and remind you of new releases or your next restore test.
dd backups can be restored on Windows with win32diskimager or similar tools. tar and rsync backups need a Linux system – which can be a Raspberry 🙂
Restore any backup to an SD card, USB disk, USB flash drive, SSD or NVMe drive – and your system has moved to a new device.
NVMe storage on the Raspberry Pi 5 and Compute Module 4 (CM4) is supported.
Run your own logic at various steps of backup and restore – for example, an extension stops all Docker containers before the backup and restarts them afterwards.
raspiBackup tells you when a new release or beta is available. Upgrading – and downgrading again – is easy.
Backup and restore are regression-tested for all backup types and modes, so every new release works as reliably as the last.
Various helper and sample scripts are available on GitHub.
How it works
Start the installer with a single command – menu-driven, just like raspi-config.
Choose backup target, backup type, how many backups to keep and how to be notified.
raspiBackup now backs up automatically and reports every run to you.
Demo
This is how easily raspiBackup is installed and configured. Chinese, Finnish, French and German are supported too.
Compatibility
Docs
Complete documentation answers (almost) every question.
Community
raspiBackup is published under the GNU license and free to use. Donations are welcome and support further development. Registration on GitHub is free – just use it.
Create your first backup in 5 minutes 🙂