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    SD Card Backups are always corrupt yet original is not.....

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    • duglorD
      duglor
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      Ok. Retropie 4.8. 64 gb sd card 1.8 terr ssd drive. Everything works fine, but neither disc juggler or a sector by sector clone disk program can successfully back.up my sd card. The new clones hang, don't run, or show gibberish. Older sd cards with with less on them from a year or so.ago work and can be cloned again fine. But my latest system is what I need backed up! Not an older one. How could this sd card work yet no copies or clones of it can? Shouldn't a sector by sector one work if the original does?! I don't want to rely on 1 single sd card to last forever!!! Any advice? Maybe there is an ultimate sd card clone program that I am missing!!!! Suggestions? Help!

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      • LolonoisL
        Lolonois @duglor
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        I have been using Clonzilla for years and it never let me down.

        I run it from an live USB stick on my Desktop PC. It has some learning curve but you will find a lot of tutorials online. Running "disk to local image" to backup and "local image to disk" to restore with the defaults should be enough as a start.

        As long as the source hardware from where you make the backup and the target restore hardware are the same make and model it should go smooth (i.e. Rpi4 -> Rpi4, SD-card make and model can differ but obviously the size of the target should be same as source or larger).

        I assume you only use the SD card for RetroPie and not a mix of SD-card and SSD drive for RetroPie.

        Do you use a SD-Card reader via USB in your Desktop PC or is the SD card directly put into the PC's SD-card reader? (I am asking as I have seen USB SD-Card readers failing).

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