Raspberry Pi: Backup and Restore
While making another tutorial, I realized one thing I forgot that every Pi owner should do regularly: Backup the SD card in case of a crash So this tutorial will show how to use our favorite operating system, Linux, to clone an SD card to an image file. Prepare First, you will need to find the path of your SD card. One easy way to accomplish this on Ubuntu systems is to open the "Disks" utility by opening the Unity Dash and searching "Disks". Here is another screenshot of the icon on a Ubuntu system running the Cinnamon desktop: Once the window opens, select your device from the left and the device path should be displayed(See highlight below). If you use a different distribution, you may have to use a different method to find the disk path. Different versions of Ubuntu may also call Disk Utility slightly different names. Now we start to backup the SD card! We're going to be using the dd command, which looks like this: sudo dd bs=XM...