Support external mounted partitions about raspibackup HOT 8 OPEN

I would be able to include my external hard drive mounted to /media in the full backup

Yes 😄

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Backup

1. An additional configuration option DEFAULT_MOUNTPATHS_TO_BACKUP and option -X allows to define a list of mountpoints of partitions to be included in the backup. The backup type selected for the OS is used also to save these partitions (tar or rsync). Backuptype dd doesn't support additional partitions.
   Example: DEFAULT_MOUNTPATHS_TO_BACKUP="/influxDB /mnt/videos /mnt/photos. Default is an empty number of mounts to backup.
2. The additional partition backups are stored in an encoded backup directory in the backup. Every / will be substituted by _. Therefore a mountpoint which includes _ is not supported. In addition a mountpoint has to be absolute and start with /.
   Example: /home/pi/my/mountpoint will be store in the backup directory as _home_pi_my_mountpoint.
3. The partitions are saved in the sequence they are defined in the option
4. Only local mounted devices are supported. Network mounted partitions (nfs, samba, ...) are not supported.
5. This new feature is available only in the partition oriented mode.

Restore

1. The restore uses the same mountpoints as used in the backup and can be derived from the subdirectory name used in the backup (endoding see above). If there is no partition mounted on any mountpoint the restore fails. This is tested before the restore starts.
2. Configuration option DEFAULT_MOUNTPATHS_TO_RESTORE will allow to define which external partitions should be restored. Default is an empty number of mounts to restore. Corresponding pption is -X .

Installer

See #762

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Just to double-check, this means that I would be able to include my external hard drive mounted to /media in the full backup, right? Because that would be amazing, it's the only thing I'm missing from raspiBackup

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That's incredible, can't wait!

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Any update on this??

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You can check on the issues page which issues I'm working on right now 😉

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