In this article, I describe how I back up my indi-allsky installation on my Raspberry Pi fully automatically to an external hard disk.
The official indi-allsky documentation describes very well what should be backed up – but leaves open how to turn it into a reliable, automated backup.
In my setup, indi-allsky runs permanently on a Raspberry Pi. The backup is not done locally, but on an external SSD on a Fritzbox, connected via SMB.
*** Update – please have a look at my new backup-strategy here! ***
The aim was to consistently implement the recommendations from the official documentation: Backup and Recovery – indi-allsky and to expand it to production readiness:
- external target
- automatic backups
- integrity checks
- time-based retention
- Mail notification in case of errors
…and this is how I proceeded!
