PiShrink
Make your pi images smaller! (by Drewsif)
rpi-clone
A shell script to clone a booted disk. (by billw2)
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| PiShrink | rpi-clone | |
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| 16 | 30 | |
| 3,264 | 2,431 | |
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| 2.9 | 0.0 | |
| 5 months ago | 30 days ago | |
| Shell | Shell | |
| MIT License | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
PiShrink
Posts with mentions or reviews of PiShrink.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-25.
- Opening Batocera Image Files
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RPi4 sdcard died, wondering about the best way to backup my new card
There is a small utility, which shrinks the image by omitting the empty space. Then you can write it to any SD card, which the data will fit on. So in your case even on a 2GB card.
- SD Card Delima
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How do you backup your RPi?
backup.sh - this is what makes the image and uses pishrink to shrink it
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backup for noobs in linux
Depending on what single board computer you are using, you may want to look at PiShrink. This will at least allow you retroactively shrink the image you create to the actual amount of space used.
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Backup a running Raspberry Pi over to the network to TrueNAS (Or anywhere else)
I was pretty familiar with most of this but I did not know about the "image backup" utility. You may also want to look at PiShrink in your process as well.
- How to remove unallocated space from disk image file?
- Can you take the image from a 256 SD card and use it to make a 2TB SDD/HDD into a bootable drive?
- Copying retro pie image
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PiHole SD Card image copy
I run a full dd to create an image and then run pishrink https://github.com/Drewsif/PiShrink on it. I used to manually size the partition down with gparted and calculate how much to dd and then gparted the new card to expand the partition - too much work. Pishrink does all the work for you and is fast.
rpi-clone
Posts with mentions or reviews of rpi-clone.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-17.
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Considerations for a long-running Raspberry Pi
I've been running a bunch of Pi's for years now, and the biggest problem I've had is the Pi itself dying: 24/7 usage is hard on a small device. I've also found that stable power is essential, and to that end I've always used 5v 3a branded power cubes, plugged into a pure sine wave UPS. Choice of micro-SDHC cards is important and I ended up getting ATP industrial cards (https://www.atpinc.com/products/industrial-sd-cards) - expensive but really long-lived. Finally, using RPi-clone (https://github.com/billw2/rpi-clone) on a regular basis has been a life-saver. I clone to Sandisk Extreme micro-SDHCs and can recover from an outage in minutes.
- Cloning SD card in CLI to use in another pi question.
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Boot Pi4 from an SSD, not the MicroSD card
I would normally use the Pi SD-Card copier to duplicate the SD-Card to an SSD but I'm unsure if this is available on the Ubuntu image - you could possibly use this program [Github] if you are not keen on using dd with a running system.
- DIY Raspberry / Orange Pi NAS That Looks Like a NAS – 2023 Edition
- 2022 Oct 31 🎃 Stickied 🅵🅰🆀 & 𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐏𝐃𝐄𝐒𝐊 thread - Boot problems? Power supply problems? Display problems? Networking problems? Need ideas? Get help with these and other questions! 𝑨𝑺𝑲 𝑯𝑬𝑹𝑬 𝑭𝑰𝑹𝑺𝑻
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Help needed on setting up Pi to boot from SSD
Then you will need to clone the SD to the SSD, you can use many tools that are available from your desktop computer or you can try with rpi-clone, just connect the SSD with Pi booted from SD, stop any possible service/docker to prevent any copy error and run, adapting device naming but usually will be (check device with dmesg):
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Help needed on setting up Pi to boot from SSD..
I used rpi-clone, it was super easy. Whole process took 10 minutes. https://github.com/billw2/rpi-clone
- I wish I would’ve switched to SSD Boot years ago
- Is it possible to convert an bootable sd to a bootable usb-ssd?
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Finished my very own Smart Mirror!
rpi-clone
What are some alternatives?
When comparing PiShrink and rpi-clone you can also consider the following projects:
Debian-Pi-Aarch64 - This is the first 64-bit system in the world to support all Raspberry Pi 64-bit hardware!!! (Include: PI400,4B,3B+,3B,3A+,Zero2W)
TimeShift - System restore tool for Linux. Creates filesystem snapshots using rsync+hardlinks, or BTRFS snapshots. Supports scheduled snapshots, multiple backup levels, and exclude filters. Snapshots can be restored while system is running or from Live CD/USB.
balena-minecraft-server - Build a Minecraft Server using a Raspberry Pi 4! Supports common Servers, SCP, RCON and Wifi Connect.
DietPi - Lightweight justice for your single-board computer!
crankshaft - Crankshaft: A turnkey GNU/Linux solution that transforms a Raspberry Pi to an Android Auto head unit.
86Box - Emulator of x86-based machines based on PCem.
log2ram - ramlog like for systemd (Put log into a ram folder)
PiShrink-to-Crontab - Raspberry; PiShrink to Crontab
v2ray - 最好用的 V2Ray 一键安装脚本 & 管理脚本
Rufus - The Reliable USB Formatting Utility
RonR-RPi-image-utils - tools to create & update a backup of a running RPiOS system to a raw image file
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