[How to] clone your Raspbmc image with win32diskimager

[monkey13]

Cheers guys. Good to know it does work for USB as well. Must have just been a local pc issue in the other thread.

[a6co1lostud]

(05-14-2013 10:07 AM)Bigheeed Wrote:  I did it tonight, it worked but i'm not brave enough to restore the two images over ones i know work and i dont have the spare cards/usb to give it a go.
One thing i wanted to ask is that when i grabbed the images, the SD came in at 3.9gb and the USB was only 65mb... I have a 4gb SD and 16gb usb, it seems like my card is almost full and nothing is on the USB, is this right or did i do something wrong?

Im not sure where i saw this but i think i remember reading... to windows the partition space is kinda sketchy

the raspbmc wiki says: Q: Does Raspbmc use the full capacity of my SD card?

A: Yes. Raspbmc automatically partitions your SD card on the first boot to use the full amount of space available on the device.

and...

and also it says: If you wish to install Raspbmc to a USB drive, create a file on the fat partition called ‘usb‘

but...im not sure what happens to the partitions when you clone. Esp from a smaller card to a larger card. Can someone help me out here??

[Dilligaf]

An image by definition is a 1:1 copy so a 16 gig usb stick should make a 16 gig image so yes something went wrong. When I make backups I prefer to use Usbit as it makes compressed image (.img.gz) backups which have considerably smaller file sizes

[Bigheeed]

(05-14-2013 01:01 PM)Dilligaf Wrote:  An image by definition is a 1:1 copy so a 16 gig usb stick should make a 16 gig image so yes something went wrong. When I make backups I prefer to use Usbit as it makes compressed image (.img.gz) backups which have considerably smaller file sizes

Thanks, i will take another look. It did seem odd that all that data was apparently still going onto the SD and only a few files on the USB.

[dandnsmith]

I've had a problem with the product on a Win7 PC.
Yesterday I tried copying the content of the SD card to HDD - OK, except that there was an error when it hit 4GB. This didn't surprise me, as the Filesystem was FAT32.
Having made changes, I wanted to try the backup again, but the program is locked to the location I used before and won't allow me to put in a new filename to perform the copy

Any ideas?

Edit later: downloaded USB IT (as reference earlier), and managed backup on 2 8GB SD cards with no problem.
I'm not sure how you might save on (unused) space, as both cards are fully populated (I think)

[s162000]

This worked great thanks!