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[maxking]

I would like to make a complete backup of the entire image but the tool that comes
auto backup backs up only the system settings
what program I can use to do it full?
Thank You

[betacentauri]

Zgemma is not supported by OpenPli.

[christophecvr]

wel if You wan't to make you're own backup by linux systems.

I do have here an example script that I use for my main home server (ubuntu 14.04 ) this runs by me each day as a cronjob. (sudo used)

On a pc set this script adapted to You're personal needs preferences in a protected folder such as /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin .

If You wan't to make something for an stb adapt the script to be ok for that.

 

Yes I did had one day a hardrive which was ko.

What I did insert the new drive (which I received in garanty lucky for that since it was a 500  gb ssd)

Just reinstalled very base ubuntu. (Time 30 minutes).

then expanded the last both tars as root user both tars (as root user). (time +- 2 hours)

Shut down pc started into base terminal mode and use cp -af    (-a from archive -f from force)  archive means preserve all recursive and preserve link's.

For both as well the $home directory files and system  /   map.

system tooks (20 minutes) (home dir took 90 minutes)

 

Then just restarted pc and I was completely where I was before the hd failure whitout any data and or setting loss

It's pure kiss rule (keep it simple stupid) but work very good.

Need More info about commands used : Internet is You're friend.

#!/bin/bash
MYHOMEDIR="/home/<You're home/dir>" # Adapt this to You're homedir. Needed cause script is executed as root user.
BACKUPDIR="/media/backup/system" # mount point of backup media
DIRDATETIME=`date +"%Y%m%d-Time%H%M"` # fetching current date and time.
NUMBERSBACKUP=`find $BACKUPDIR -mindepth 1 -type d | wc -l`
# Keep only the last three backups.
if [[ $NUMBERSBACKUP > 2 ]] ; then
	 # searching oldest backup.
	ERASE=`find $BACKUPDIR -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d | sed -e "s/\.\///g" | sort | awk 'NR==1{printf "%s", $0}'`
	echo "$NUMBERSBACKUP backups found The oldest $ERASE will be removed"
	rm -rf "$ERASE" # removing oldest backup
fi
mkdir $BACKUPDIR/$DIRDATETIME
# Backup sytem whitout home -,virtuals - and medias directory. .
# Why like below ? I gonna make a tar archive file.
# I can't use -type f since it will issue to many arguments error.
# The files and or links in dept 1 dir are well added with type -f and -l(for links)
# By system I first excluded /var, Ad it later on seperately then some depth 2 dirs can be excluded.
SYSTEM=`find / -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d \( -wholename /proc -o -wholename /dev -o -wholename /tmp -o -wholename /var -o -wholename /sys -o -wholename /media -o -wholename /home -o -wholename /lost+found -o -wholename /run \) -prune -o -type d -print`  # system files
# files and links(not the content but link self) in / directory They are not included in the above -type d
SYSTEMFILES=`find -P / -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 \( -type f -o -type l \)` # -P normally default added to be shure it may happen that command defaults change.
# var directory must not be done completely. A couple of directory's are excluded
SYSTEMVAR=`find /var -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d \( -wholename /var/run -o -wholename /var/tmp -o -wholename /var/lock -o -wholename /var/spool \) -prune -o -type d -print`
SYSTEMVARFILES=`find -P /var -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 \( -type f -o -type l \)` # -P normally default added to be shure it may happen that command defaults change.
echo "Backup System"
# Backing up the system in one tar archive c to create P to preserve f to make archive copy.
tar cPf $BACKUPDIR/$DIRDATETIME/linuxsystem.tar $SYSTEM $SYSTEMFILES $SYSTEMVAR $SYSTEMVARFILES
echo "system Backup done"
sleep 3
echo "Backup home directory"
# I used separate file for the home dir.
# to exlude some dirs I used the tar --exclude option. That's another way then like I did by system.
HOMEDIR=`find $MYHOMEDIR -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d`
HOMEDIRFILES=`find -P $MYHOMEDIR -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 \( -type f -o -type l \)`
tar cPf $BACKUPDIR/$DIRDATETIME/home.tar $HOMEDIR $HOMEDIRFILES --exclude="$MYHOMEDIR/openpli40/openpli-oe-core/build/tmp/work"
echo "backup done"

sleep 5

#exit

[Pedro_Newbie]

Try the BackupSuite. The zgemma is not directly supported but most likely the BackupSuite is able to make a working back-up.

You only have to rename the folder of the made back-up to match it with the foldername you need.

[maxking]

thanks,backup suite eccellent software

 

P.S. betacentauri NOOB...lol