How to restore a backup

Quote from rad18x!

Hi, I am a newbie to OpenMediaVault. I am confused by the files I have generated in the OMV Backup folder and how I restore the backup to the Card on the Raspberry Pi if I need to. The procedure is not detailed in the documentation, at least I cannot find it.

There are several procedures to restore depending on the method you used to make the backup. Some of them are in the guides section, others you will have to look for in the forum, no one has written guides for them.

For a Raspberry I would advise you to make an image of the SD card, it is the simplest and safest procedure. https://wiki.omv-extras.org/do…ackup#cloning_flash_media

Quote from Teschbert

I'm successfully doing "SD-Card-Cloning" too (but planning for a test with OMV-Backup and fsarchiver).

I would like to add here a tool for macOS for cloning - because most people are focussing on Windows only (in the HowTo's also).

Its the "Apple Pi Baker" for Backup and Restore. With this tool its an absolute easy and straightforward process to (offline-) backup a Pi-SD-Card and restore - even with automatic shrinking/expanding partitions and a restore from a small sd-card-clone to a bigger sata-harddrive or SSD is no problem - I tested this already successfully.

With Apple Pi Baker I backup (clone) my 32GB sdcard within 8mins including shrinking and compression to a 5GB clone on my MacBook.

Maybe its a good idea to add this tool to a "Backup/Restore HowTo" as alternativ cloning-SW for Mac-Users.

I think you are right, generally the procedures focus on Windows because that is what a high percentage of users use.

crashtest , you might be interested in reading this.

Quote from Teschbert

I would like to add here a tool for macOS for cloning - because most people are focusing on Windows only (in the HowTo's also).

Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on how a user might look at it) the majority of the user base are using Windows clients. When it comes to PC Desktop Clients, Windows is still far ahead of the closest competitor, Mac OS. ((Supporting the forum is one of the reasons why I haven't dumped Windows altogether.))

-> OS Market Share as of 2023 (IOS and Andriod excluded)

Windows 64%

OS X 20%

Chrome OS 4%
Linux 3%

Adding to that, the majority of documents written on OMV-extras have been written by chente and myself. I don't have a Mac and I don't think chente owns a Mac either. Since doc's really should be tested and confirmed to work, with actual hardware and software, it's not possible to write for outlier scenarios.

In the preface or prerequisites of some of my doc's, it's noted that Mac or Linux users will have to find equivalents of the utilities describe in the doc's. With limited resources, that's the best that we can do.

Quote from crashtest

I don't have a Mac and I don't think chente owns a Mac either.

You're right, I don't have a Mac. I preferred to wait for you to say it because you have written many more documents than me, but the reason in my case is the same. I always test everything I write on the wiki, if I can't test it I skip it.

I think it would be positive to publish some guide in the guides section of the forum on alternative solutions for Mac, anyone can do it and it would be useful for many people.

Quote from Teschbert

I would like to add here a tool for macOS for cloning

usbimager is available for macOS as well