Just done a successful backup and restored to another card. I turned off the McAfee AV and it seems good. Thanks for the advice.
On Monday, August 22, 2016 at 6:38:14 PM UTC+1, vince wrote: > > 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. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
