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This document shows how to setup a dedicated backup machine for LAN use, made from bit and pieces | This document shows how to setup a dedicated backup machine for LAN use, made from bit and pieces most people don't care about these days: a Raspberry Pi 1, a 32MB SD Card, and a 2GB USB key. For the software, we will use FreeBSD and BorgBackup. | ||
== | == Prepare the OS == | ||
Why waste a 8GB or 16GB fancy SD Card when you probably have some old SD and USB sticks lying around? Also reading performances on USB is *much* better on USB than with the crappy SD reader of the RPi1. Finally FreeBSD on the RPi1 works great, and very light on resources which is a plus given the limitation of the RPi CPU and RAM. | |||
What needs to be done in a nutshell is to have the mandatory MS-DOS <code>/boot</code> partition on the 32MB SD card and have the rest of the filesystem on the USB stick. | |||
Revision as of 09:47, 12 July 2018
This document shows how to setup a dedicated backup machine for LAN use, made from bit and pieces most people don't care about these days: a Raspberry Pi 1, a 32MB SD Card, and a 2GB USB key. For the software, we will use FreeBSD and BorgBackup.
Prepare the OS
Why waste a 8GB or 16GB fancy SD Card when you probably have some old SD and USB sticks lying around? Also reading performances on USB is *much* better on USB than with the crappy SD reader of the RPi1. Finally FreeBSD on the RPi1 works great, and very light on resources which is a plus given the limitation of the RPi CPU and RAM.
What needs to be done in a nutshell is to have the mandatory MS-DOS /boot partition on the 32MB SD card and have the rest of the filesystem on the USB stick.