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35 questions linked to/from How do I backup my Raspberry Pi?
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How to clone Raspberry Pi SD Card on Windows, Linux, and macOS? [duplicate]
I want to make a back up of my raspberry pi because I have done a lot of work and repeating the process would take a lot of time. How does one go about making an image of a Raspberry Pi SD card for ...
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Backup Image of SD Card [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I backup my Raspberry Pi?
While messing around with my RPi it likely that I'm going to want to revert to a previous position (but not revertingall the way back to the ...
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How to create regular backups of my PIs [duplicate]
I have three Pis running in my local net and backup them on a regular base.
I just detected threads where people asked how to create a backup just in case something went wrong. I tried to answer in ...
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How do I make a backup with DD? [duplicate]
I installed Arch-Linux-ARM on a 128GB SD-card for my Raspberry Pi. Now I want to make a backup.
There is less than 1.5GB of data on the SD card and if I want to make an image with DD, DD wants to read ...
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copy rpi sd card on wins 10 (format problem) [duplicate]
how do I copy my rpi sd card using Windows10. I need to make a snap shot system disk backup prior to further development. I want to have an exact system copy NOT a backup of files etc. With a system ...
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How can I resize my / (root) partition?
Even though my SD card is 16GB, the image I flashed onto it was only 2GB and now I can only see 2GB of storage space on the disk.
How can I resize the image so that I have more space on my root ...
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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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Writing .img file to SD Card from a Mac
I want to burn a .img file of Wheezy OS to my 8GB SD Card from Mac OS X but can't figure out how.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Copy existing Raspbian installation to smaller SD card
Is it possible to copy an existing and configured Raspbian installation to a smaller SD card?
When I first installed Raspbian I only had a 32 GB card at hand which obviously is bigger than needed.
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How can I copy the same image to many SDs?
So finally I can place that bulk order for Raspberry Pis! However, configuring them is going to be a chore. What I'd like to do is:
Download a stock image, and tinker with it on a single Pi
Save/...
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How to make an image (.img) from what's on the SD card (but as compact as the original one)?
I tried:
sudo dd bs=4k if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=/media/1BAB47551C66A42B/raspbian_migs2.gz
It creates an .img file with 7.6 GB (card size, BUT what's on the card has 700 MB).
And:
sudo dd bs=4k ...
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Can I backup my SD card with Disk Utility on OSX?
I see a lot of backup instructions like this:
How do I backup my Raspberry Pi?
...involving the command line in OSX.
But can't I just use the OSX "Disk Utility" to create a "New Image" from the ...
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I accidently deleted my taskbar - how do I get it back?
Abandoned post by Unregistered user.
I recently was messing around with my Pi when I accidentally deleted the taskbar. I cannot figure out how to bring it back.
I was on the desktop when I ...
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How do I transfer my setup between SD cards?
I started out with a 2GB SD card, but I'm finding this a bit cosy, so I've bought a 16GB card to replace it. With a single Pi, can I transfer all my work between the cards, or do I need to start from ...
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How do I set up ssh keys to log into my RPi
Using ssh keys to log into your RPi is much more convenient than typing the password everytime.
It's especially handy if you want to log in from automated scripts or use programs such as scp or rsync
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Backing up SD card generates a huge .img file
I am trying to back up a 16GB SD card as it is proposed here:
How do I backup my Raspberry Pi?
I have started with 2017-01-11-raspbian-jessie-lite.img and then did some work with FFmpeg (cloned & ...
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Making a new image after changing a few parameter of Raspbian
I got Raspbian on a SD card. It is working. Then I installed a few program, modified some visual settings, and added some config files.
What I would like to do now is release this image to other ...
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How do I resize my debian partition?
I've seen advice here for resizing, which is fine if you have another linux distribution to work with.
How can I do resize the partition otherwise? Are there any Windows tools for example?
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I shut my Pi down last night - now it doesn't finish booting
Last night, I turned my Raspberry Pi off; now, it doesn't finish booting.
After serveral I/O reading failures it hangs on kbd. I've tried booting with several configurations of no mouse, no keyboard, ...
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Periodic backup of Rpi3 Stretch SD card
Starting with a pristine install of Raspbian Stretch on a 16GB SD card, I plan to set up various sets of software packages. I would like to start with a baseline install and create a restore-point (...
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Win32 Disk Imager creates a corrupt file of my SD card
I need to "clone" my Raspberry's SD card, so I can send it to a friend. I need the project to work in any raspberry.
Seeing a lot of posts about how to do this, I decided to use Win32 Disk Imager. ...
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how to recover removed directories
I am trying to cross compile Qt for my raspberry, I tried it and I had some errors so I decided to change the configuration and try again maybe things will get better ..
I got this after configuration
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Raspberry Pi Operating system transfer
I have run out of space on my raspberry pi and now have a larger SD card for it. I have lots of data on the old card and want to move it over to the larger one, but when I transferred the files, the ...
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Using the argument bs with dd when backuping an SD card
I've seen this question on how to backup an SD-card. It's the same solution I would come up with myself; that is basically:
dd if=/dev/blabla of=/home/user/some_file.img`
But my question is if using ...
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Fast reinstall of rPi with desired dependencies
I do a lot of experimentation on my rPi and I frequently want to wipe the OS and start clean. However, there are a number of things that I want installed/ configured no matter what I'm doing on the pi....
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Would overclocking a raspberry pi to "Medium" be dangerous to the Pi?
I am new to overclocking and just bought a Raspberry Pi to learn more about computers and run a Java server on. I was wondering: Would overclocking my Raspberry Pi to the "Medium" setting be dangerous?...
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cloning SD card to another SD Card
after the umpteenth time of hosing my XBMC install and rebuilding, i've learnt my lesson and would like to clone the SD card to a 2nd SD card.
I've found this on StackExchange:
How do I backup my ...
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How to backup my running Pi to my NAS? [duplicate]
I seem to be able to find lots of guides for backing up my PI that involve taking the SD card out, or running dd and hoping nothing changes.
But is there any way to take a proper, system-level, ...
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backup raspberry Pi OS
Hello i am running ubuntu mate on raspberry pi 3 and i would like to back up the img of the OS straight to an external usb. Do you have any suggestions ?
Is this going to work ?
sudo dd if=/dev/...
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no internet although DHCP is working
My issue is similar to what is described here: Raspberry Pi has no internet and cannot ping primary router when connected to repeater
I was playing around with PiVPN (WireGuard) and invoked the ...
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How to turn Pi into media centre
This is a new topic for me. I would like to connect my Pi 3 to the TV, and be able to watch shows through it. From what I've read OSMC must be installed. Is it correct that OSMC is an operating system ...
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Completely copying a Pi over SSH
I have full root access to a Raspberry Pi. I'd like to copy its complete setup (full XBMC, configuration etc) to another SD card over SSH. The SD card currently in the Pi is 4GB, the one I'd like to ...
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Why can't I SSH or Real VNC into my RPi4 after expanding the root partition to use the full 32GB sd card? [closed]
I was following the solution here to make full use of my 32GB sd card. After I hit enter to accept the default for the last sector I saw;
Created a new partition 2 of type 'Linux' and of size 29.5 GiB....
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Raspbian on HardDrive
I'm currently running an apache2 server off my Raspberry Pi 2 with no problems and everything is going smoothly. Recently, my organization (which uses the Pi) came upon a pretty good computer and we ...
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Cloning my Raspberry Pi OS without an SD card [duplicate]
I'm running this OS version on my raspberry pi version 4 ...
# uname -a
Linux raspberrypi 5.10.17-v7l+ #1421 SMP Thu May 27 14:00:13 BST 2021 armv7l GNU/Linux
I want to clone my current OS into a ...