

You can restore the image created on a 64gb card back to a smaller 8gb SD card just by ticking a resize box in the program.The Paragon program is great for two reasons. Based on solid commercial backup and recovery software from Paragon Software, Backup & Recovery Free Edition will give you a rich set of features that you can trust. With it, you will have full control over the security of your system and data. It creates images that save space when most of your SD card is empty.No need to use the linux program “parted” or “gparted” to resize partitions. Paragon Backup & Recovery 64-bit Free Edition is a time-tested backup and recovery tool. Unlike Win32diskimager that creates very large images, PHDM creates a 2gb image for my Openhab backup even when taking a full image of a 128gb card. Larger cards have faster read and write specs.Ĭlonezilla appears to only do the second feature so would require a partition resize before the backup is made to achieve the first feature. Have a hardware backup as well as a software backup: What happens if your Openhab hardware gets stolen or the hardware physically breaks.Some things to consider about your backup method are: I wanted to explain why I chose this method and some topics which not all users will be familiar with as this particular method/system is different. Is your backup files stored on that same device? I like the cheap raspberry PIx and SD cards because I wish to always keep a second one around setup ready to go. A full hardware backup ready to go, not just a software backup.

Downtime should be able to be fixed in under a minute plus booting time by any family member.
