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  • 1 TB active, 2 TB Backup on my own storage and 2 TB Backup remote on internxt (lifetime plan).

    Before being overly excited about their lifetime offerings (and discounts on such) getting the backups running reliably was a pain up until their last webdav update, so I would consider them with caution. Also I’m not sure they do another round discounts on their plans… at least their marketing mails said it was the last chance - but hey, that also might be a strategy to make you buy in.


  • I just recently switched over to rpi-clone after doing backups of the booted SD with SD Card Copier, the GUI app on Raspberry OS.

    The original version from billw2 didn’t work with modern OS versions. After doing some lookups in the issues and online, the users pointed to geerlingguy’s version, which seems to be maintained.

    I’m not using rpi-clone-setup but rpi-clone sdX and after trying it for the first time, it worked. I swapped out the SD with the copy and the raspberry booted (it didn’t boot with billw2’s version).

    Next step is to create a script for regular backups.

    To your questions:

    • Tried it, it works for my use-case
    • rpi-clone asks for confirmation, which I need to address when trying to do backups automatically
    • Have tried others but needed a working copy on a new SD card, so this is the solution I’m going with
    • If you want a file you probably want to use dd. I’m aware of the space issue. I quickly looked up other tools: partclone and fsarchiver seem to address the free space issue, but I never tried them so I cannot speak to that.