I just recently switched over to rpi-clone after doing backups of the booted SD with SD Card Copier, the GUI app on Raspberry OS.
The original version from billw2 didn’t work with modern OS versions. After doing some lookups in the issues and online, the users pointed to geerlingguy’s version, which seems to be maintained.
I’m not using rpi-clone-setup but rpi-clone sdX and after trying it for the first time, it worked. I swapped out the SD with the copy and the raspberry booted (it didn’t boot with billw2’s version).
Next step is to create a script for regular backups.
To your questions:
Tried it, it works for my use-case
rpi-clone asks for confirmation, which I need to address when trying to do backups automatically
Have tried others but needed a working copy on a new SD card, so this is the solution I’m going with
If you want a file you probably want to use dd. I’m aware of the space issue. I quickly looked up other tools: partclone and fsarchiver seem to address the free space issue, but I never tried them so I cannot speak to that.
I just recently switched over to rpi-clone after doing backups of the booted SD with SD Card Copier, the GUI app on Raspberry OS.
The original version from billw2 didn’t work with modern OS versions. After doing some lookups in the issues and online, the users pointed to geerlingguy’s version, which seems to be maintained.
I’m not using
rpi-clone-setupbutrpi-clone sdXand after trying it for the first time, it worked. I swapped out the SD with the copy and the raspberry booted (it didn’t boot with billw2’s version).Next step is to create a script for regular backups.
To your questions:
dd. I’m aware of the space issue. I quickly looked up other tools: partclone and fsarchiver seem to address the free space issue, but I never tried them so I cannot speak to that.