sw99 wrote: 
> 
> 
> Is there something I am doing wrong, or is there another way I can
> backup the card?
> 
> 

mr-b wrote: 
> I had a related question after my rebuild experience.
> 
> How do I backup from an application-level (for PCP, Squeezelite,
> Jivelite, LMS etc.) so I can restore them on to a new installation?
> Ideally the backups would be stored on a different storage
> device/machine.
> 

Greg Erskine wrote: 
> 
> 
> SD card copies are usually very slow, because it creates an imagine the
> size of your SD card (16GB?) not just the 120MB that pCP uses.
> 


On Windows I use Win32 Disk Imager v1.0

https://win32diskimager.download/

Tick the box "Read only allocated partitions"

and this will copy the "Resize FS" partion of pCP. So you have a pCP
install on a 8gb card, and the FS has been expanded to 500Mb, the copy
is 500 Mb and will burn to a 4gb card at that size.

Using Windows it is best to always type in the .img when filling in the
Image File box.


If one has a copy of Raspbian Desktop on a SD card (and why not ?) there
is PiShrink 

https://github.com/Drewsif/PiShrink

which will reduce the size of a copied or cloned image.

So, using the previous example of a 8gb card that has been fully
expanded, PiShrink will reduce that to a minimum size. One needs a spare
usb stick or card reader for this.


Hope this helps:)

ronnie


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