I thought piclone was great for that. With a couple manual edits you can even clone an sd to a hard drive.
On 9/22/17, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > Greetings; > > Trying to dd a copy of the micro-sd card the pi-3b is booting from, to > another micro-sd card in a usb reader/writer, and winding up with > nothing but an empty lost+found directory on it. > > Obviously some sort of a syntax error, but it still takes the pi several > hours to do it, with the traffic led on the reader/writer showing > continuous activity. > > Is there another way/util that actually works for making verbatim backups > of these limited lifetime sd cards? > > Thanks. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > -- ------------- No, I won't call it "climate change", do you have a "reality problem"? - AB1JX Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach
