Copy OR Backup SD Card

[yehlu]

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Windows

Option 1

On Windows, you can use the reverse process that you used when flashing the SD card.

You can use Win32 Disk Imager, which is the preferred tool for flashing a SD card of the Foundation. Just enter the filename, select the device and press read:



Of course, you can also use RawWrite, dd for Windows or similar tools, the process is quite similar.

Option 2

If you don't want to back up your entire system, but only specific files, I suggest you connect to your Raspberry Pi via SFTP and copy the files to your local computer (You can use the WinScp client). If you have SSH enabled, SFTP usually requires no special configuration on the Raspberry Pi side.

You can also install special drivers so your Windows can read ext filesystems (and will thus be able to read the whole SD card), such as ext2fsd but it s probably not orth the effort.