{"id":2648,"date":"2016-09-15T22:38:13","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T22:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raspberry-projects.com\/pi\/?p=2648"},"modified":"2016-09-28T08:35:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T08:35:49","slug":"duplicating-sd-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raspberry-projects.com\/pi\/pi-operating-systems\/duplicating-sd-cards","title":{"rendered":"Duplicating SD Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nOne by one
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\nwin32diskimager<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nBatch Duplication – Commercial
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\nWe've not tried it but the "Vinpower Digital SD Shark Standalone Target SD\/MicroSD Memory Card Duplicator"<\/a> looks as though it might be a more reasonably priced solution (still pretty expensive though).  It's stocked by quite a few retailers including amazon.  We asked if it would work for SD cards used with the Raspberry Pi and got this response:\n<\/p>\n

\nAs long as the cards are formatted with HFS+, HSFX, FAT, exFat, NTFS, ext2\/3\/4 the duplicator should have no problem copying the data from the master to the target.\n<\/p>\n

\nIn regards to the size issue you are concerned about. There is a setting in our Duplicator called “Size Tolerance” that you may modify by percentages (e.g. 1%, 2%, 5%, Ignore, OFF ). This will allow you to use SD cards that are not consistent in the exact size. The user manual will have more information regarding this.\n<\/p>\n

\nRaspbian uses ext4 so….  \n<\/p>\n

\nThen we asked again about the bitwise copy and got this response:\n<\/p>\n

\nOnly the SMART copy will care about the file system. Our RAW copy method will copy bit by bit without caring what file system is on it.\n<\/p>\n

\nOne of our clients has purchased this and seems to be having success with it.  Please comment below if you've found any other solutions\n<\/p>\n

\nBatch Duplication – Open Source
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\nrockandscissor\/osid<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nLooks abandoned and they didn't release the image file they initially hoped to, but maybe it works fine?\n<\/p>\n

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One by one win32diskimager Batch Duplication – Commercial We've not tried it but the "Vinpower Digital SD Shark Standalone Target SD\/MicroSD Memory Card Duplicator" looks as though it might be a more reasonably priced solution (still pretty expensive though).  It's stocked by quite a few retailers including amazon.  We asked if it would work for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pi-operating-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raspberry-projects.com\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raspberry-projects.com\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raspberry-projects.com\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raspberry-projects.com\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raspberry-projects.com\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2648"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/raspberry-projects.com\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2654,"href":"https:\/\/raspberry-projects.com\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648\/revisions\/2654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raspberry-projects.com\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raspberry-projects.com\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raspberry-projects.com\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}