Testing in VM about raspibackup HOT 8 CLOSED

Yes. It works on Raspberry only. I wrote raspiBackup just to make sure I get backups for my Raspberries. There exist already a lot of tools to backup a normal Linux system.

If you want to test raspiBackup in a VM you can emulate a Raspberry with QEMU (That's what I do in order to execute raspiBackup regression tests). See here for my QEMU setup instructions.

But why don't you just run raspiBackup on one of your system, create a backup and restore it on another SD card/USB stick to test it's functionality? It's not modifying anything on your system other than to create a log 😄 What's your concern not to test raspiBackup that way but to test it first on a VM?

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@danielandross Do you need any additional information? Otherwise please close the issue ;-)

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@danielandross I'm going to close the issue in one week if you don't mind 😄

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Thanks

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There exist already a lot of tools to backup a normal Linux system.

Could you please provide some links?
I have several Raspis at home, but I also like to get a backup of my Debian VPS.

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Not sure I get your point. But if you are looking for Linux backup tools just search for linux backup using your favorite search engine ;-)
For example I just found [url=https://www.tecmint.com/linux-system-backup-tools/]this page[/url] with 20 Outstanding Backup Utilities for Linux Systems in 2018

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Well, I like the raspibackup script very much.
My VPS provider (Netcup) has a strange Backup model.
You can take snapshots via Webinterface, but only 1 export overall is free. Each additonal export costs 0,5€.

I'm wondering if there is a script like raspibackup that can create an image file of the running VPS and save it in the same filesystem. Then I could download it with WinSCP.

Restore of a running system would be impossible though, I guess?
So I probably have to rely on the snapshot system and that snapshots are saved and backuped outside the VPS by Netcup for the case the Host of the VPS crashes...

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Ok. I got your point. I don't know of any Linux tool which creates backups of a running system.

We're off topic now ...

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