Raspberry Pi SD Cloning: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 10:17, 20 July 2013

This article is about backupping and restoring the SD card of a Pi.

HeiMac:~ root# df -h | grep /Volumes
/dev/disk3s1    56Mi   19Mi   37Mi    34%    /Volumes/Untitled
HeiMac:~ root#

HeiMac:~ root# umount /Volumes/Untitled

HeiMac:~ root# dd if=/dev/rdisk3 of=/Users/heiko/Desktop/piBackup.img bs=1m

dd if=/Users/heiko/Desktop/piBackup.img of=/dev/rdisk3 bs=1m

umount /Volumes/Untitled

If you restored on a SD card with with higher capacity, remember to use raspi-config to expand the filesystem.

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 == Backup ==
-  mount
+  HeiMac:~ root# df -h | grep /Volumes
+ /dev/<b>disk3s1</b>    56Mi   19Mi   37Mi    34%    /Volumes/Untitled
+ HeiMac:~ root#
-  umount /dev/diskXsX
+  HeiMac:~ root# umount /Volumes/Untitled
-  dd if=/dev/diskXsX of=/Desktop/piBackup.img bs=1M
+  HeiMac:~ root# dd if=/dev/<b>rdisk3</b> of=/Users/heiko/Desktop/piBackup.img bs=1m
 == Restore ==
-  dd if=/Desktop/piBackup.img bs=1M of=/dev/diskXsX
+  dd if=/Users/heiko/Desktop/piBackup.img of=/dev/rdisk3 bs=1m
+ umount /Volumes/Untitled
+If you restored on a SD card with with higher capacity, remember to use <tt>raspi-config</tt> to expand the filesystem.
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 ** http://developer-blog.net/en/hardware/raspberry-pi-backup-2/
 ** http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/311/how-do-i-backup-my-raspberry-pi
+** http://elinux.org/RPi_Easy_SD_Card_Setup
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