Creating an image for backup
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Team,
This is horriby basic for 99.99% of everyone reading this. But after using Linux as my daily driver for 20 years there are several things that elude me to this day,
SAMBA being the first. but thats not whay im here.
Im here because I live in central FL, which is the absolute lightening capitol of the world.
Most people pray noit to lose their hardware. I pray NOT to lose power. Because everytime I do I can gurantee at least ONE raspberry pi will corrupt its SD card.
Now I burn images to sd cards all day long, before that I was buringing them to DVDs and CDS ad naseum,
BUT come the PI and nothing works for me apparently there is a version f the dd command trhat makes this stupidf ez. Well apparently I am stupider. I tried creating an image on an EMPTY 2TB usb hard drive, and almost filled the darn thing.
I just want to place a preconfigured SD card, from a known good working PI into my main PC and create an .img that I can burn to any other pi, when my power goes out and my sd goies POOF
any and all serious replies are appreciated.
thanks for not laughing soi hard I can herar.....
J
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@mindwave Win32diskimager...
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@udb23 Thats a windows only app right?>
my wife has a win laptop for work, hate to sound simple, but is it fairly intuitive to create an image?
like i said 'burning' an image is something ive never had an issue figuring out, but the reverse is just killing me.
That time when I was try8ng to learn dd and almost filled an external HS was so aggravating it was ALMOST funny
j'
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Win32DiskImager is what I use as well to backup my RPi images.
This site has an easy to follow guide: https://howchoo.com/g/nmexndnlmdb/how-to-back-up-a-raspberry-pi-on-windows
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