Ive got a very large 32gb SD card for my Raspberry Pi and I wish to copy it as a backup and also have the ability to mirror the card to another *smaller* SDCard, I use less then 700MB on the 32GB card because it simply houses my Raspberry Pi bootable stuff and is used exclusively with the Raspberry Pi only. I have all the settings perfected and would find it difficult to try & replicate them to a smaller card all over (Hence the reason I wish to mirror)
I was totally new to the whole Raspberry Pi stuff when I started fiddling with it and had no idea how impractical it would be to have such a large SDCard, therefore I wish to make a backup of the card and restore it to a much smaller card and use that to boot the Pi, and recycle the large 32GB card for something more suitable.
Any help you can provide is greatly appreciated, I am hoping their are some linux commands I could utilize to make this happen that would take a nice bit-by-bit backup and allow the use of switches to only extract/compress the used space? I am just unaware of them... If I had too I would also be okay with using some windows software if it can accomplish my needs.
Any help you can provide is greatly appreciated.
I was totally new to the whole Raspberry Pi stuff when I started fiddling with it and had no idea how impractical it would be to have such a large SDCard, therefore I wish to make a backup of the card and restore it to a much smaller card and use that to boot the Pi, and recycle the large 32GB card for something more suitable.
Any help you can provide is greatly appreciated, I am hoping their are some linux commands I could utilize to make this happen that would take a nice bit-by-bit backup and allow the use of switches to only extract/compress the used space? I am just unaware of them... If I had too I would also be okay with using some windows software if it can accomplish my needs.
Any help you can provide is greatly appreciated.