How to create a backup on the fly?

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Hi,

I'm a windows 10 user and configurate my Pi-hole by a SSH shell as usual. The rPi is a Gen2 version.
My question:
How can I create an image backup on the fly, means without taking the SD card out of the pi and copying it.
I know the dd command in Linux but how will the image be copied on my PC drive ?
Sorry, I'm not very familiar with Rasberian.

Any help is welcome. Thanks.

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What application are you using on Win to run ssh?

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Putty. Actual release.

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What mibere suggests are good. Since you're using putty it's going to be easier to just put a USB thumb drive on the RPi and backup / image to that. You could go a long way and set up sftp/scp/rsync or something like that over the network but that will require some applications running on the Windows box to receive the files.

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Thank you for the nice ideas.
I have a Linux running NAS as well on my network and will try to rsync the images before I try anything with the W10 system.

Have a nice day.
Cheers

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I created an rsnapshot config, which is creating a backup from /etc/pihole and the logs folder to a HDD connected to my main router. Transfer is over smb on my local network.

Is this a good and safe solution?

...but hard links are not working, any suggestions for an automatic backup?

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