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    Back up and clone your Raspberry Pi

    Sep 06, 2021 4 minutes

    While it’s a flexible, affordable and much-loved piece of computing hardware, the Raspberry Pi isn’t without its problems. One particular bugbear is the device’s reliance on flash storage – potentially unreliable SD and microSD cards that are prone to data corruption following an unscheduled shutdown or restart.

    One way to avoid this is to ensure that the Pi is shut down carefully. But it also pays to have a backup of your data, just in case the worst happens. Raspberry Pi has several options for backup, from cloning the microSD card to remotely backing up over SSH.

    Clone wars

    The ability to switch Raspberry Pi projects simply by swapping microSD cards means that if a card is found to be corrupt, you can

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