Backup copy of SD card

super zee

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Mar 26, 2022, 6:02:17 PM3/26/22

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After getting my WX site up and running, I 'm thinking a backup copy of the SD going in the Raspberry Pi is a good idea. Is this just as easy as a drag and drop of all the files on one SD card to another in Windows 10 with both cards plugged in the PC? Or is there cloning software that I should use to grab the Raspian OS and all files?

Chris

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Mar 26, 2022, 6:14:15 PM3/26/22

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You can move the SD card onto a pc, zip up the files and push them to a second SD card. I did that when I first set up Weewx on a Raspberry Pi. but I wouldn't do it now. So much stuff changes so often that I now backup the conf files, skin files, and other custom scripts using tar and store them in github. The ones that I mess with frequently I have as separate files. For the database I have a script that runs nightly and copies it to google docs/drive.

If (inevitably when) I rebuild the system, I'll reinstall the up to date OS and Weewx version and then overlay my customized files.

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