{"id":18687,"date":"2022-06-24T18:31:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T16:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nerdiy.de\/?p=18687"},"modified":"2022-06-24T18:32:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T16:32:29","slug":"how-to-save-the-raspberry-pi-system-sd-card-as-image-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nerdiy.de\/en\/how-to-save-the-raspberry-pi-system-sd-card-as-image-2\/","title":{"rendered":"HowTo: Raspberry Pi - Backup system SD card as image"},"content":{"rendered":"

As is often the case with backups, you usually only think about making one when it's too late. That's what happened to me recently with one of mine RaspberryPis<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. The curse and blessing with these is that they use an SD card as the main drive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This makes installation very easy. Unfortunately, an SD card only has a limited number of write cycles. This means that if you often write a lot of data to this SD card, then it may happen that this SD card fails at some point. But even if you don't write a lot of data to this SD card often or a lot, it can make sense to create a complete backup of the SD card you are using.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How you can create a complete backup of an inserted SD card using a USB stick or an external hard drive is described in the following article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Helpful articles:
<\/strong>Before you start with this article, you should have prepared a RaspberryPi so that it can be reached via the network and controlled via SSH. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following articles describe what needs to be done to prepare the RaspberryPi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n