![]() Fantastic.įor my second test – I ran my script on the Raspberry Pi 3 so it was fully up to date with all of my tools – Apache, PHP, Mosquito, Node-Red, SQLite etc. I ran the backup, powered down, swapped SDs over and rebooted – no problem at all. ![]() ![]() I started up the Pi3 and put another identical SD into a convertor and stuck the USB convertor into a spare USB slot. So in order to test this new backup facility – I grabbed the latest Raspbian (not the NOOB version) and blew it onto a16GB SD with Win32DiskManager as usual. Not only will this new utility copy from live to SD (I’ve yet to figure out how to run the SD copier from the command line but it runs from menu – accessories – SD card copier without issue) but also – and I’m quite excited about this – you don’t need the same size SD – which means expansion or reduction is now a snap – thank heavens for that. Once you have this you’ll wonder why it was not always this way – especially if, like me you’re not a Linux fanatic. I’ve reported this to the BerryBoot author.īut here’s the thing – the latest version of Raspbian Jessie now for the first time includes a live backup facility. Nice theory but in practice, on reboot, I ended up with an utterly dead board – something to do with the update and BerryBoot. Sudo apt-get install python-pigpio python3-pigpio Sudo apt-get install piclone geany usb-modeswitch ![]() It was with sadness then that I updated Raspbian today to the latest version. Well, now there’s a better way.Ī slightly less painful way than backing up the whole SD with a PC is to use BerryBoot which can do a good job of running Raspbian and at power-up giving you the option to store a compressed version of the SD to USB memory. Using a PC to backup a 16GB SD is a pain and of course necessitates turning the Pi off to remove the SD. One of my biggest issues with the Pi has always been – backups. ![]()
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