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Little Backup Box: Now with a card-making shell script and Samba

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Dmitri Popov
May 14, 2019

Little Backup Box comes with a dedicated shell script that greatly simplifies the process of installing and configuring the required packages and scripts. But before you get that far, there is one hurdle you have to clear: creating and setting up a bootable microSD card with the Raspbian system. It’s not a particularly complex process, but it does require you to go through several steps. To reduce manual work to an absolute minimum, I wrote a simple shell script.

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Dmitri Popov

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