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Link: Cloning a Pi

Post by Jubbp » Tue Aug 12, 2014 9:14 am

Haven't read through this one properly and putting it here for further investigation later.

backing up / copying an Pi SD for use in another Pi


http://sysmatt.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/ ... -your.html

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Re: Link: Cloning a Pi

Post by parkview » Wed Aug 13, 2014 9:13 pm

Hi Phillip,

yes, easy to do, just use the same program you used to burn the SD card. In Windows world, you could use 'WinDisk Imager' to read the SD card to a file on your local PC.

Some other backup methods to use, is to install the SAMBA server on the RPi, and then mount the RPI shared folder from your local PC. You can then just copy important config and data files, over to a dated folder on your local PC.

If you really get into ti, you can do the reverse, and mount a Windows shared folder onto the RPi, and write a script to copy/shove files from the RPi onto the local PC. This can be fully automated.

Another option, but a bit more techo, is to setup a GIT or Subversion file versioning repository, and use this to dump important file to it. This is particularly handy when your coding.

I usualy use all the above methods at different times. But I do try and keep a relatively current SD card image JIC things go pear shaped.

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