How to Backup Raspberry Pi

SD Card and more

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You will need the backup for your Raspberry Pi device(s) due to:

Technical issues (overheating, errors, energy supply issues, cable

connection failure, etc.) that can occur and crush the memory

Occasional deleting or damaging your project files with your own hands

Intention to re-start all the work anew

Intention to duplicate the whole file system

Backup a Raspberry Pi SD Card
Variant 1. Using Linux
1. Insert the SD card into your Linux device slot
2. Open up a command line
3. Fulfill the command:
dd if=/dev/sdx of=/path/to/image bs=1M
Backup a Raspberry Pi SD Card
Variant 2. Using Mac
1. Insert the SD card into your Mac device slot
2. Open up a command line
3. Fulfill the command:
dd if=/dev/rdiskx of=/path/to/image bs=1M
 Backup a Raspberry Pi SD Card
Variant 3. Using Windows
1. Download Win32DiskImager from the SourceForge

2. Safely remove your SD card from the RPi and insert it

into your PC slot

3. Open Win32 Disk Imager

4. Choose the name and location of the backup file and

the letter for your SD card

5. Click Read
 Backup Raspberry Pi with CrashPlan
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You will need ExaGear Desktop emulator to set up CrashPlan client on your Raspberry Pi
device. So, just follow the steps below:

1. Download, unpack and install ExaGear Desktop emulator: 5. Download the Linux Crashplan archive from their official website.
$ cd home/pi/Downloads https://www.crashplan.com/en-us/download/
$ tar -xvzpf exagear-desktop-rpi*.tar.gz 6. Unpack the CrashPlan archive
$ sudo ./install-exagear.sh $ cd /home/pi/Downloads
2. Start the guest x86 system: $ tar -xvzpf CrashPlan_4.8.2_Linux.tgz
$ exagear 5. Install CrashPlan on the x86 guest system
3. Update the guest system: $ cd /home/pi/Downloads/crashplan-install
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo ./install.sh
4. Download the libraries necessary for CrashPlan: 8. Follow the installation manager and then make up an auto start:
$ sudo apt-get install lxrandr libgtk2.0-0 libXtst6 cpio $ sudo service crashplan start 2>/dev/null
$ sudo update-rc.d crashplan enable

Now, you can run CrashPlan with the following command:

/usr/local/bin/CrashPlanDesktop
 Backup Raspberry Pi with Dropbox
You will also need the ExaGear Desktop emulator to set up Dropbox on RPi device in this case.

1. Download, unpack and install ExaGear Desktop emulator:
$ cd home/pi/Downloads
$ tar -xvzpf exagear-desktop-rpi*.tar.gz
$ sudo ./install-exagear.sh
2. Start the guest x86 environment:
$ exagear
5. Download Dropbox 32-bit Debian archive:
$ wget linux.dropbox.com/packages/debian/dropbox_2015.10.28_i386.deb
6. Unpack Dropbox and launch the installation:
$ sudo dpkg -i dropbox_2015.10.28_i386.deb; sudo apt-get install -f
7. Now, you can run Dropbox directly from the menu

3. Update the guest system:

$ sudo apt-get update

4. Install necessary libraries for Dropbox:

$ sudo apt-get install wget libxslt-dev libxxf86vm-dev xcb

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