Disc Image

Having had a couple of SD card failures after having installed quite a bit of software and documents, I wonder if there are any tools to clone or image the cards to avoid having to install it all again on a fresh card

Win32DiskImager allows you to create the SD card from an image. Once you’ve installed all your favourite software it allows you to read back the image and save it as a backup (it will read back the whole size of the card). Then at least you will only have to re-flash the SD card to restore everything.

Win32DiskImager allows you to create the SD card from an image.

Yes, but how do I create the image in the first place?

Yes, but how do I create the image in the first place?

The same software also allows you to create an image of the SD card, using the ‘Read’ instead of ‘Write’ button.

The same software also allows you to create an image of the SD card, using the ‘Read’ instead of ‘Write’ button.

This doesn’t work under Win7.
Win32DiskImager only points to the riscos.img in the file icon, but then says it can’t locate it when read button is pressed.

In any case, presumably this is not what is wanted, but rather a clone of the whole sd card, including the FAT partition with the *.elf files and bootloader etc

This doesn’t work under Win7.

There’s a link to other Win7 friendly software which will do it for you here

Both Win32DiscImager and the one linked from the RaspberryPi forums above will clone SD cards and/or write images back to them for you, although you need the one linked above for Win7, it seems.

What about this?:

http://www.piccolosystems.com/disctools/clonedisc

Re: " I wonder if there are any tools to clone or image the cards ?"

The easiest way to do it is to use the Pi itself running Raspbian. You will need a USB card reader as well.

Just use the dd command to make a backup of the RiscOS CD card.

If you own the NutPi pack, you can just use CloneDisc, which is included.

Even better :)

Even better :)

edit: What happened there? I am sure I only posted once.
and it won’t let me delete the second post. :(

Thanks for all the plugs for CloneDisc, guys – I haven’t really announced it beyond my own website yet, must get round to that!

Thanks for all the plugs for CloneDisc, guys – I haven’t really announced it beyond my own website yet, must get round to that!

Yeah, congratulations on the release, Ben. It looks great, and I’m really looking forward to the other implied disc tools that are in the pipeline. Must order a NutPi!

Must order a NutPi!

Must check on progress of orders…
I noted the comment on the forums the other day that demand was rather high, but I thought I’d beaten the rush. The widget bit of the order arrived (via number 26 rather than 36) before I got the acknowledgement of the NutPi web page amendments.