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Hi, Martin

Do you have a suggested backup for a Raspberry Pi?

Thanks,
Bob

I was considering to offer a backup client for my own software, but frankely, backup on *x is a nightmare compared to Windows. Unlike Windows volume shadow services, snapshots (e.g. LVM, btrfs) are not configured out of the box with any distro I am aware of. The consequence is that consistent, online, application-agnostic backups are impossible.
You can

• search for a backup solution specific to the applications you run
• shutdown the system and copy the SD card offline
• do away with the Raspy and run *x virtualized on Hyper-V - then Windows backups (including mine) work great.

Regards, Joachim

I'm afraid not. A good backup solution for Linux is "Veeam Agent for Linux free", but this requires an x86 CPU.
Most simple file-based solutions run in the user context and this makes it hard or impossible to use with lights-out.

Regards
Martin

Ok..Thanks to both of you...