Changelog

v1.6 - veloc

Added run_bkup.sh script for automating backups Changes originally made by veloc, in a fork from the original project

v1.5 - MrAndersonMD

File and folder exclusion based on external exclude-file.txt Changes originally made by MrAndersonMD, in a fork from the original project

v1.4 - eklex

Added the shrinking option Changes originally made by eklex, in a fork from the original project

v1.3 - slmingol

Heredoc (cat << EOF) instead of echo -e for better legibility. Changes originally made by slmingol, in a fork from the original project

v1.2 - lzkelley

Original project on Github by lzkelley, latest modification on 2019-05-08, with these changes specified in the bkup_rpimage.sh file:

2019-04-25 Dolorosus:
- fix: Proper quoting of imagename. Now blanks in the imagename should be no longer a problem.
2019-03-19 Dolorosus:
- fix: Define colors only if connected to a terminal Thus output to file is no more cluttered.
2019-03-18 Dolorosus: - add: exclusion of files below /tmp,/proc,/run,/sys and also the swapfile /var/swap will be excluded from backup. - add: Bumping the version to 1.1
2019-03-17 Dolorosus:
- add: -s parameter to create an image of a defined size.
- add: funtion cloneid to clone te UUID and the PTID from the SDCARD to the image. So restore is working on recent raspian versions.

v1.0 - jinx

2014-11-10 bkup_rpimage.sh v1.0 by jinx at the Raspberry Pi Forum