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Re: need sd card backup on r-pi-3b



I thought piclone was great for that.  With a couple manual edits you
can even clone an sd to a hard drive.

On 9/22/17, Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> Trying to dd a copy of the micro-sd card the pi-3b is booting from, to
> another micro-sd card in a usb reader/writer, and winding up with
> nothing but an empty lost+found directory on it.
>
> Obviously some sort of a syntax error, but it still takes the pi several
> hours to do it, with the traffic led on the reader/writer showing
> continuous activity.
>
> Is there another way/util that actually works for making verbatim backups
> of these limited lifetime sd cards?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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>


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