External harddrive overwritten as xbian-copy

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(19th Nov, 2018 12:08 AM)nickfx Wrote:  Great, thanks a lot. HOMEDEST="notset" was not my doing, must have been the default. All safe now... I'll wait to hear if UUID can be used, then I might re-enable it with the 2nd hard drive. Cheers.

I suppose this is not the backup strategy you want to have.

If you write to an partition, the root partition will be copied only, but not the /boot partition.

If you want to make monthly backups, you'll have to configure an image backup, with destination on your external disk (usually the disks are mouted to /media/<lLabelOfTheDisk>, so this folder does never change)

So, those variable should look like

Code:

# auto clone / image creation should be run: none/daily/weekly/monthly
IMGPLAN=monthly

# backup to img file (file) (in case of total SD card corruption, your system can be restored by reflashing this image)
# or directly to block device (block)
IMGTYPE=file

# path to img including file name (/media/my_disk/xbian_backup.img) or block device (/dev/sda1)
IMGDEST=/media/<yourbackupdisk>/xbian_image_$(date +%F).img

# how many images should be kept (0 means unlimited)
IMGKEEP=3