rpi-clone | shell script that will back up

rpi-clone is a Shell library typically used in Internet of Things (IoT), Raspberry Pi applications. rpi-clone has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

rpi-clone is a shell script that will back up (clone using dd and rsync) a running raspberry pi file system to a destination sd card 'sdn' plugged into a pi usb port (via a usb card reader). i use it to maintain backups of several pi sd cards i have and the destination backup sd cards can be a different size (smaller or larger) than the booted sd card. rpi-clone works on raspberry pi distributions which have a vfat boot partition 1 and a linux root partition 2. tested on raspbian but should work on other distributions which have this same two partition structure. rpi-clone does not work with noobs. rpi-clone can clone the running system to a new sd card or can incrementally rsync to existing backup raspberry pi sd cards. during the clone to new sd cards, rpi-clone gives you the opportunity to give a label name to the partition 2 so you can keep track of which sd cards have been backed up. just stick a correspondingly named sticky label on each sd card you have and you can look up the last clone date for that card in the rpi-clone log file /var/log/rpi-clone. my convention for my set of cards is to name 8gb cards: sd-rpi-8a, sd-rpi-8b,