Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
RPi uSD card copying guidance needed
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My active mirror is at least two updates behind. I just imaged a new OS on a uSD card in a desktop RPi that I built and installed all of the modules from the various repositories on it and it is looking pretty good.
Can I duplicate the uSD card using the RPi’s card copier utility and insert that into my mirror’s RPi? Is there anything else I need to do, either before or after I insert the new uSD card?
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@earnestrichards I do not think u can clone the SD card while booted from it.
u should be able to use some utility.on the system you used to flash the os image, to capture an image from the card
after capturing the image and the flashing it on another matching size SD card, you should not have to do anything except boot from the new card
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@sdetweil I decided to throw caution to the wind and use the native card copier. Good news… The copy was successful and the mirror runs great. I did use the exact same uSD card (both a 128GB SanDisk I got from SamsClub).
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@earnestrichards
I do this and it make backup to a .img file.
https://github.com/The-Exterminator/PiShrink-to-Crontab
