Orange Pi 3 LTS

[dawsonnick]

Hello,

I am pretty much a newbie when it comes to Linux
however have managed to get my Orange Pi3 LTS
running with HomeAssistant on the ECCM storage
but now want to take an image of things when they are stable
and before I make changes which will likely require a rebuild!

I came across your product (this product) and
have been following the getting started instructions rigorously
but have come up with the following error
when I tried to run an image backup to a USB drive:-

_orangepi3-lts:rear:# sudo usr/sbin/rear -v mkrescue                  <master ✗>
Relax-and-Recover 2.7 / Git
Running rear mkrescue (PID 3849 date 2023-01-22 11:29:52)
Using log file: /root/rear/var/log/rear/rear-orangepi3-lts.log
Running workflow mkrescue on the normal/original system
ERROR: Currently only OUTPUT=PXE is supported on ARM
Use debug mode '-d' for some debug messages or debugscript mode '-D' for full debug messages with 'set -x' output
Aborting due to an error, check /root/rear/var/log/rear/rear-orangepi3-lts.log for details
Exiting rear mkrescue (PID 3849) and its descendant processes ...
Running exit tasks
[1]    3847 terminated  sudo usr/sbin/rear -v mkrescue_

My understanding is that I have probably used the wrong file
from the repository (I used git clone https://github.com/rear/rear.git )

I think that there will be a solution as I see someone else
is using a Raspberry Pi which is also an ARM processor.

I am using Armbian as the OS (so essentially debian)

Should I simply be changing the "git clone command
to look somewhere other than where I pulled rear,git
or am I missing something more fundamental?

thank you in anticipation

[jsmeix]

@dawsonnick
I am not a ARM user and in particular not a Raspberry Pi user
so I cannot help with ARM specific or Raspberry Pi specific issues.

Your git clone command

# git clone https://github.com/rear/rear.git

is the right one to get the current ReaR upstream master code.

In general in ReaR there is currently only rather
"Initial (limited) support for certain ARM based hardware",
see the ReaR release notes e.g. for ReaR 2.7 online at
https://github.com/rear/rear/blob/rear-2.7/doc/rear-release-notes.txt#L2799
and the few small descriptions that mention 'ARM' in
usr/share/rear/conf/default.conf e.g. for ReaR 2.7 online at
https://github.com/rear/rear/blob/rear-2.7/usr/share/rear/conf/default.conf#L3271
and
https://github.com/rear/rear/blob/rear-2.7/usr/share/rear/conf/default.conf#L945

This current rather limited ARM support
was basically only implemeted via
#1662
that reads (excerpt)

Currently only OUTPUT=PXE is supported and you'll need
to manually craft an bootable Disk with the Kernel and Initrd

which originated from
#1197

[dawsonnick]

@jsmeix thank you for your reply.

Good to know that I am going about this the correct way even though it appears that this solution will not work for me.

I will look for another way to create an image and backup my ARM OrangePi.

Regards