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How To Backup An Sd Card
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!! How to Clone an SD Card
!!! How to Clone an SD Card
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! Determining the Mount Point of Your SD Card
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! Unmount the SD Card
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Once you've unmounted the partitions, you can then use the "{{dd}}" command to make the copy. I'll be storing it in my home ("~") directory as a file named "rpi-backup-20210328.img". I generally add a timestamp to my backups so I can figure out when I made them.
!! Making the Backup Copy
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The "{{dd}}" command is part of the Linux OS, you don't need to install any software.
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Once you've unmounted the partitions, you can then use the "{{dd}}" command to make the copy. I'll be storing it on my Desktop ("/home/altheim/Desktop") directory as a file named "rpi-backup-20210328.img". I generally add a timestamp to my backups so I can figure out when I made them.
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As a point of reference, on my desktop computer ("Intel® Core™ i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz × 4"), backing up my 16GB SD card using the above command line took 877.819 seconds (almost 15 minutes) to complete.
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