NVMe backup &migration

[roisec]

NVMe Backup & Migration Support for Raspberry Pi

I have a Raspberry Pi with an SD card, and I want to migrate to nvme.

1. Backup the current system from the SD card to an NVMe drive.
2. Change the boot device from the SD card to the NVMe drive.

Additionally, I would like to know if there is any support for performing a “cold backup” of the NVMe drive (boot partition and OS) back to an SD card.

Can you provide guidance or documentation for these use cases?

[framps]

raspiBackup creates backups but no clones.

If you want to have a cold backup you can use a raspiBackup extension to invoke any clone tool to clone your system to an SD card. You also can use the extension to restore latest latest backup created by raspiBackup to a SD card.

[roisec]

If I want to migrate from sdcard to nvme , the tool supports backup and restore to nvme? Because I don’t see any documentation around this .
if I do the backup I need already the drivers and fstab installed operation systems , otherwise the it will not work .

[framps]

the tool supports backup and restore to nvme?

Yes. You can restore any backup created from any device to any device. That way you also can migrate from SD card to NVMe, from NVMe to SSD and also back from disk to SD card 😉

Because I don’t see any documentation around this .

Please check "Easy system transfer to any device" on this page

[roisec]

My goal it to change to nvme from sdcard .
And once it will work add for the first boot order to nvme and once have a problem switching to sd card boot.

[framps]

Let's make sure we're on the same page:

Right now you run your system from SD card and want to migrate the system to your NVMe device. Then you want to create a backup once a week from your NVMe device and also have this backup be restored on your SD card.

Just create a backup of your SD card, restore the backup on your NVMe device and then configure a raspiBackup extension to execute raspiBackup when the NVMe backup was created to restore the just created backup on your SD card. ✔️