On Sun, 03 Jun 2018 19:13:32 +0000, Martin Gregorie wrote:

> First backup will take hours, but if the OP uses something moderately
> clever for doing backups, i.e. rsync, then subsequent backups will be
> quick. Provided he does reasonably frequent backups then little or
> nothing will be lost and recovery from a failed SD card/SSD/HDD will
> take no longer than unplugging the dead one and replacing it with the
> latest backup.
>
I should have added that, if I wanted a bootable backup, I'd do the
initial backup with dd, check that it booted successfully, and then do
all subsequent ones with rsync.


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