Bootable backup

[dcaccount]

Sorry for the easy question but it is not clear to me. I use shrink backup to backup an Amrbian Odroid HC4.

Are the backup bootable or in other words are the backup the exact copy of the microsd?

I have this doubt because this is the log I have just got and boot partition is marked as false.

# Write to logfile: false # # Autoexpand filesystem at boot: true # # Use exclude.txt: true # # Boot partition: false # # Bootsector size: 3MiB # # Estimated root usage: 2586MiB # # Image size: 3877MiB with a root partition of 3873MiB

Can you please clarify and advise what I shall do to make 100% full backups?
Thanks.
Daniele

[UnconnectedBedna]

Please don't create a bug report for questions, use the discussions part of the repo.

advise what I shall do

You can start by reading the README and the wiki.

shrink-backup is a very fast utility for backing up your SBC:s into minimal bootable img files for easy restore with autoexpansion at boot.

As long as you don't tell shrink-backup to exclude anything relevant, it will create a bootable img file that autoexpands at first boot.
Not sure what else I can tell you, there are no errors and Odroid HC4 does not seem to have a boot partition.
If you want to create a log file, add -l option.