Backup of the existing .cfg files, or..

[Manfredo1952]

At the moment I am creating an .img file from the SD card within my BTT Pad 7, using ApplePi Baker - takes sbotu an hour to finish.
Is there are faster way of creating a backup regularly ?
Thanks

[bassamanator]

What are you trying to backup specifially? The printer configuration?

[Manfredo1952]

Basically the files which are required to run the whole show. I would like to have a backup of a startup-SD Card and then only have copy those files onto it, just in case the system fails after am update.

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[bassamanator]

Well there are many approaches to this. You have to choose the one that works for you.

For me, I see little value in backing up the entire image (I used to do this myself btw). But then again, it's quite easy for me to push out a fresh new image to any one of my devices. I'm only interesting is saving things that aren't readily downloadable from the internet. The files that I would backup are the ones that are unique, and I would use something like rsync to do daily backups/weekly backups.
BackupDeviceX.sh

#!/bin/bash
[email protected]:
dest=/path/to/whereYouWantThingsSaved
exclude=**/node_modules
rsync "-avXP" "--info=progress2" "--no-i-r" "-R" "--exclude=${exclude}" "${sourceLocation}/home/pi/path/to/whatYouWantSaved" "${sourceLocation}/home/pi/path/to/whatYouWantSaved2" "${dest}"

Then just run via ./BackupDeviceX.sh. You can run it over and over again, and only changed files will be synced.

Having said all this, you have to choose the method that you can reliably perform time and time again.