Hi
I’ve been trawling around the internet to try and find best way to clone my rpi SD card. I’ve used the DD method a few times (successfully) I.e. running DD on live pi then zipping image to about 5 or 6gb. Process takes a long time (hour or so) including burning image to new SD with Raspberry Pi Imager app.. I always shut down my services before I do this as some people say DD on a live computer will have issues due to data inconsistencies etc. I haven’t had any issues to date to be honest but I wondered if there was a better way.
I found the image-utils image-backup scripts that use rsync under the hood amongst other tools. This was also run on my live pi and did seem quicker to be fair. fair play to the author… a lot of effort went into that I’d guess!
Still not sure whether a clone of a live running system is good idea or not? Anyone know the answer?
Also I did find on internet somewhere that Rasberry Pi Imager can be used to clone an offline SD card, but I’ve tried and when selecting the “custom” option I can only select an image NOT a source SD. I am running the Raspberry Pi Imager app in Linux not Windows if that makes a difference? Does anyone know if the Imager application should be able to clone SD cards directly and not via an image?
Thanks
I’ve been trawling around the internet to try and find best way to clone my rpi SD card. I’ve used the DD method a few times (successfully) I.e. running DD on live pi then zipping image to about 5 or 6gb. Process takes a long time (hour or so) including burning image to new SD with Raspberry Pi Imager app.. I always shut down my services before I do this as some people say DD on a live computer will have issues due to data inconsistencies etc. I haven’t had any issues to date to be honest but I wondered if there was a better way.
I found the image-utils image-backup scripts that use rsync under the hood amongst other tools. This was also run on my live pi and did seem quicker to be fair. fair play to the author… a lot of effort went into that I’d guess!
Still not sure whether a clone of a live running system is good idea or not? Anyone know the answer?
Also I did find on internet somewhere that Rasberry Pi Imager can be used to clone an offline SD card, but I’ve tried and when selecting the “custom” option I can only select an image NOT a source SD. I am running the Raspberry Pi Imager app in Linux not Windows if that makes a difference? Does anyone know if the Imager application should be able to clone SD cards directly and not via an image?
Thanks
Statistics: Posted by sadsyndrome — Thu Nov 28, 2024 3:40 pm
