A small Electron desktop app for Windows that puts a GUI on top of a PowerShell rsync backup script for a Raspberry Pi — so you don't have to run it from the command line or manage Task Scheduler by hand.
It's a wrapper, not a reimplementation: all the actual backup logic
(rsync/scp, SD card imaging, exclusions) lives in a companion
PowerShell script, shintech-backup.ps1. This app just builds the
right command line, spawns it, and streams the output into a live
log.
- Frameless, dark "Hi-Con" themed window
- Connection check against your Pi (ping)
- Pick a backup destination folder and the script to run
- Daily schedule (hour/minute picker), handled in-process while the app is open
- Per-source include/exclude checkboxes (home dir, website, nginx
config, systemd units) — wired straight through to
-Skip*flags on the script - Run-now / cancel, plus a one-off full SD card image run
- Persisted settings (
electron-store, with schema validation) and a status readout of the last/next backup
- Windows + PowerShell
- Node.js 18+
- A copy of
shintech-backup.ps1, the companion backup script rsyncon PATH for efficient transfers (falls back toscpif it's missing), and SSH access to the Pi
git clone https://github.com/ShinobiFPV/pi-backerupper.git
cd pi-backerupper
npm install
npm startOn first launch the app tries to auto-detect shintech-backup.ps1 at
~/Projects/ShinTech/shintech-backup/shintech-backup/shintech-backup.ps1;
if it's somewhere else, point it there with the Browse button
under Script. Then set a Destination folder and, optionally,
a daily Schedule.
npm run buildProduces a Windows x64 NSIS installer via electron-builder.
- Nothing here talks to the Pi directly except the connection-test ping — every actual backup runs through the PowerShell script as a child process.
- The scheduler only runs while the app is open; for a true
background/service schedule, use the script's own
install-backup-task.ps1(Windows Task Scheduler) instead.