> On May 10, 2024, at 9:49 AM, gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > On 5/10/24 11:25, Chris Albertson wrote: >> Rsync will copy data at the file system level. I think the OP wants to >> copy the partition tables and boot sector. But rsync can copy across a >> network and is a decent way to make a backup of your data. >> Clonzilla loks like it can work. I’ve always used “dd” because it is a two >> letter command and very easy to rember the exact spelling, and it just >> works. Clonzilla might be better for people who find it hard to type in >> long complex commands like “dd” and prefer a menu-based system. > > All good advice. Choose your favorite. The one I miss is the one that can > take an arm64 install, with all the additions to do a job, and back it up > over the network to a file that only the total used on that arm64 system. one > that can then be copied to a fresh u-sd card of much greater capacity, and > which will then on first boot, expand the partitions to use all of the new > u-sd cards capacity. I've been using 64G cards and had had no losses. 16G > cards are big enough but have a lifetime of around a year. I have some 128G > I'll use for the next install.
Raspberry Pi5 can use PCIe storage, no SD card is needed. Eventually, we will all stop using SD cards for system drives. I keep wanting to reconfigure my Pi4 to boot off the network with no SD card installed. The Pi3’s networking was too slow for this and the Pi5 does not need it. I might never get around to it. So what I do today is a compromise. I install Linux from an image file. I never store my data on the SD card. data is NFS mounted from the network server. This also means the data is always available on my other computers. I never have to move it. and if an SD card dies, nothing is lost. I never have to backup an SD card. _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
