Raspberry Pi Backup System for Classrooms

A system designed to make it easy to create backups for a whole classroom of Raspberry Pi computers.

For documentation of the system, e.g. what it does and how it works, see the article linked below: https://kasad.notion.site/Raspberry-Pi-Backup-System-for-Classrooms-599ef1eacbc44781ae3d198d03363775

The rest of the README file documents only the files in this repository.

Building

The provisioning script (provision.sh) and the client script (client.py) both contain the initial server IP address and HTTPd port. To make this easier to configure, we generate these files using GNU M4 to expand macros in source files. The macros' values are derived from config.mk.

To build the scripts,

1. Change the settings in config.mk as necessary.
2. Then run the command make to generate provision.sh and client.py.

The provisioning script must also contain the contents of some of the files in the node directory. This too is handled by M4 and the Makefile.

Repository structure

The repository is sectioned into three parts: 1. Loose files - Consists of build system files and files shared between nodes and the server 2. The node directory - Contains node-specific files and mimics the directory structure of a node. 3. The server directory - Contains server-specific files and mimics the directory structure of a server.

To-do list

• Add automated testing capability