#!/bin/bash # Usage instructions at http://www.megaleecher.net/Best_Raspberry_Pi_Hot_Backup_Shell_Script # This version disables backup image compression as it takes too much time on Pi, to enable uncomment the relavent lines # Setting up directories, Just change SUBDIR and DIR varibales below to get going SUBDIR=deskPi DIR=/home/pi/ServerBackup echo "Starting RaspberryPI backup process!" # First check if pv package is installed, if not, install it first PACKAGESTATUS=`dpkg -s pv | grep Status`; if [[ $PACKAGESTATUS == S* ]] then echo "Package 'pv' is installed." else echo "Package 'pv' is NOT installed." echo "Installing package 'pv'. Please wait..." apt-get -y install pv fi # Check if backup directory exists if [ ! -d "$DIR" ]; then echo "Backup directory $DIR doesn't exist, creating it now!" mkdir $DIR fi # Create a filename with datestamp for our current backup (without .img suffix) OFILE="$DIR/backup_$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S)" # Create final filename, with suffix OFILEFINAL=$OFILE.img # First sync disks sync; sync # Shut down some services before starting backup process #echo "Stopping some services before backup." #service apache2 stop #service mysql stop #service cron stop # Begin the backup process, should take about 1 hour from 8Gb SD card to HDD echo "Backing up SD card to USB HDD." echo "This will take some time depending on your SD card size and read performance. Please wait..." SDSIZE=`blockdev --getsize64 /dev/mmcblk0`; pv -tpreb /dev/mmcblk0 -s $SDSIZE | dd of=$OFILE bs=1M conv=sync,noerror iflag=fullblock # Wait for DD to finish and catch result RESULT=$? # Start services again that where shutdown before backup process #echo "Start the stopped services again." #service apache2 start #service mysql start #service cron start # If command has completed successfully, delete previous backups and exit if [ $RESULT = 0 ]; then echo "Successful backup, previous backup files will be deleted." rm -f $DIR/backup_*.img mv $OFILE $OFILEFINAL echo "Backup is being tarred. Please wait..." #tar zcf $OFILEFINAL.tar.gz $OFILEFINAL # rm -rf $OFILEFINAL echo "RaspberryPI backup process completed! FILE: $OFILEFINAL" exit 0 # Else remove attempted backup file else echo "Backup failed! Previous backup files untouched." echo "Please check there is sufficient space on the HDD." rm -f $OFILE echo "RaspberryPI backup process failed!" exit 1 fi