On Monday, August 22, 2016 at 9:59:15 AM UTC-7, Phil Green wrote:
>
> On Monday, August 22, 2016 at 5:56:57 PM UTC+1, Phil Green wrote:
> > I am performing these steps. So I don't know what is corruuting the 
> card. I am not even writing to it just copying the cite tag to an .img file!
> > Regards
> > Phil.
>
> Meant to say copying the contents to the .img file. I am properly ejecting 
> the card. Could it be my anti virus software on my Mac?
>

Very doubtful.   Is the Pi really shut all the way down before you pull the 
card from it ?  Sometimes you need to give it a bit of time to let it flush 
its writes to disk on the way down.

I guess I'd make liberal use of the write-protect switch on the SD card 
whenever reading from it on the mac, just in case, if all you're doing is 
sticking the SD in the mac, reading from it, and ejecting it after you 
write the image to the mac disk.  Of course you'll need to occasionally 
test your .img file can be written 'to' a usable SD card too so you know 
your backups work.

FWIW, I don't back up my pi any more.   Just save the data someplace over 
the LAN via scp occasionally, and (try to) keep everything I change stashed 
in a git repo that I can easily reinstall.


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