Back Up Pi SD Card

Create an image on Windows

1. Download Win32 Disk Imager, which is used to create SD cards (or USB disk) from an image of an operating system downloaded on the Internet, but it is also used to create an image from an SD card.

2. Insert your SD card from Pi in your computer.

3. Open Win 32 Disk Imager.

4. Choose an image location and name for your image. Make sure to have enough free space on your disk where you want to store the image.

5. Then select the device you want to back up. You’ll typically only see the “boot” partition, but don’t worry, Win32DiskImager will create an entire image of all partitions on the device. Make sure that Read Only Allocated Partitions is unchecked.

6. You can now click on “Read” to start the copy. The process will start and it can take some time depending on your SD card size.

Restoring the image to any SD card

1. Insert the SD card in your computer.

2. Choose the image file. Pick the device letter in the list, and then click on “Write” to start the copy.