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11 questions linked to/from Periodic backup of Rpi3 Stretch SD card
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How do I backup my Raspberry Pi?
I have been writing programs for my Raspberry Pi (running Raspbian) for a few weeks now and would like to make sure I protect the work I have done.
How can I backup the files I have created?
Can I ...
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Can a Raspberry Pi be used to create a backup of itself?
This question answers the question of how I use an external computer to create a backup of my RPi.
I'm wondering whether I can create a backup image of the SD card that is currently in use, and ...
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How do I expand the file system on a Raspberry Pi 4 manually?
I have just flashed an image of my original 16 GB SD card (the one that comes in the Raspberry Pi kit) to a new 128 GB card. It booted up fine but when I tried to expand the filesystem using raspi-...
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How can I share my SD card image?
I need my SD card to be cloned and shared. One of the obvious way is to use Win32DiskImager. However it has some disadvantages:
It's huge: it has a size equals to the size of the cloned SD card (even ...
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Raspberry Pi 3 Model B SD card cloning
I have one Raspberry Pi (3 Model B) with mostly working software. I will need 6 Pi's (same model) to behave similarly.
So I thought that it would be a grat idea to just clone 6 SD cards from working ...
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apt-get update errors after copying Raspbian to new SD card
I copied a working raspbian buster installation from one SD card to another (raspberry pi 4). I did so by simply calling dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=raspbian bs=1M on my Notebook with the existing SD card ...
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Can I mount an USB stick (ext4) and create a backup of the Pi using the dd command?
I want to use the following command:
sudo dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=/mnt/myBackup.img bs=1M
What if the USB drive was formatted to vfat?
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Why is the volume ID of the root partition of Raspbian always [7ee80803]?
I noticed that no matter which microSD card I burn the Raspbian image onto, its "identifier" is always 7ee80803. This appears counter-intuitive to be because "disk identifier" is something written in ...
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Failed SD Card file expand on Raspberry Pi
I´m trying to expand an SD that´s running on a Raspberry Pi. The original SD was 8Gb. I saved it to PC with Win32DiskImager, then wrote a new 32Gb SD from that image, and run the file expand option in ...
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Easy backups and snapshots of a running system with LVM
LVM (Logical Volume Manager) has some useful enhancements. You can make a snapshot, then check new programs and if they don't work as expected or you don't like them you can simply revert to your ...
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How to Backup/Shrink the image of my working Raspbian SD Card
I want to shrink the image to minimise storage and to efficiently distribute this image to others who may have smaller SD Cards.
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