n9qgu
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DVAP and Raspberry Pi 2 B
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Post by n9qgu on Feb 18, 2015 10:49:27 GMT -7
Once I have my Raspberry Pi working the way I want. What is the best way to backup the SD card?
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Post by W6KD on Feb 18, 2015 17:30:28 GMT -7
Use Win32diskimager, put a filename into the box, click on the "read" button and it'll save an image of the SD card out to the file you specified. To flash that image back, you enter that file name or browse to it, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE SD CARD AND NOT YOUR HDD SPECIFIED AS THE TARGET DEVICE and click "write" just like you did when you first created the image from the download.
It's not a bad idea when operating portable or mobile to keep an already-flashed spare around for a quick-change just in case your primary SD card ever gets corrupted. You can power down, pop in the spare, and then re-flash the bad card (assuming the media hasn't failed) at your leisure later.
Regards
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n9qgu
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Post by n9qgu on Feb 18, 2015 20:02:57 GMT -7
Thank you
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g7tcw
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Post by g7tcw on Feb 20, 2015 3:24:03 GMT -7
Hi
Am I missing something as I cannot get this to work
I have a working 10c software running my PI Putting this card in the card reader of my computer Win 32 Discimager is looking for a .img file to read but there is no .img file on a configured working SD Card How do you read the SD Card ?
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Chris G7TCW
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Post by W6KD on Feb 20, 2015 10:40:14 GMT -7
No, when you press the "READ" button, Win32diskimager *creates* a .img file using the SD card as the source. You type in the full path name of the .img file you want to create in the dialog box, select the SD card device and click on "READ"
Example: you type in C:\backup.img in the window, and select "D:\" (assuming your SD card is drive D:), press "READ", and Win32DiskImager will create a sector-by-sector disk image and save it to a file named backup.img on your C drive.
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g7tcw
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Post by g7tcw on Feb 21, 2015 3:38:33 GMT -7
Hi
It works thank you
Chris G7TCW
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