Clone SD card -

[Rick Stevens]

On 06/08/2015 10:06 AM, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 06/08/2015 09:59 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
>> Can someone tell me the proper command to clone an SD card?
>>
>> I am working with the RPI 2B and I would like to store a backup on my
>> hard drive and be able to write it back to another SD card. I may not be
>> asking Google the right things but it hasn't helped ...
>
> You could use something like Clonezilla. On the flip side, to get an
> EXACT image, as root:
>
>      # dd if=/dev/sdX of=/place/to/save/image.img bs=1M
>
> where "/dev/sdX" is the raw device of the WHOLE SD card (NOT a partition
> such as "/dev/sda3").
>
> To put on a new, identical SD card, as root:
>
>      # dd if=/place/to/save/image.img of=/dev/sdaX bs=1M

OOPS! Should be

	# dd if=/place/to/save/image.img of=/dev/sdX bs=1M

> again where "/dev/sdX" is the raw device of the WHOLE SD card. "dd" is
> your friend.
>
> BTW, this should be virtually identical to the way you created the
> bootable SD card in the beginning, not so? :-)

(gotta be a Monday!)
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