Thank you Dennis for your assistance, I really appreciate it! Your input helped me to find the exact procedure for doing it just like you said, using the Windisk Imager.
https://computers.tutsplus.com/articles/how-to-clone-your-raspberry-pi-sd-cards-with-windows--mac-59294 Thanks again! Lidia On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 1:32 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 29 Oct 2016 11:48:55 -0400, Lidia Toscano > <[email protected]> declaimed the > following: > > >Yes but it is not just the image I originally burned onto the SD card, > > My question was "what did you use to create the original SD card". > > I then went on to explain that the software /I/ used can create an > image file FROM and SD card, which could then be used to write a copy to a > different SD card. (I just got done doing that yesterday, for my RPI3 -- > I'd made a backup a few weeks ago since I was running a benchmark suite > that required a swap file on the card, and thrashed it heavily... when I > booted the RPI3 yesterday, fsck found a massively trashed disk structure -- > I think it was reading the former swap file as directory entries: multiply > claimed inodes, for everything on the disk -- I finally pulled the plug, > verified my backup would boot [it did], shutdown, made an image from that > card, formatted the original card, and wrote the image to it) > > > Of course, if all your personally created files are in > /home/debian (or > somewhere under /home) you could use "tar" to collect the /home directory > into one file, use sftp to copy that file to your main computer. Create a > fresh SD card with a plain OS image, boot from that, do the usual apt-get > update/apt-get upgrade, use sftp to put the tar archive to the new card, > then use tar to extract the home directory contents. > > tar -cvzf /backup.tar.gz /home > > > tar -xvzf /backup.tar.gz /home > > -- > Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN > [email protected] HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/ > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > topic/beagleboard/ijSyYF4W2oI/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/beagleboard/rjm91chieb3ovdhfliq4rcggok44ih3udi%404ax.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CALseTBU8NMkvgm_DdMoByUM%2BTLEn-mqg3Pg3qYxmrgeaVqp6ug%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
