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Alex Ong edited this page May 3, 2018 · 5 revisions

This is a brief outline on how to restore a Raspberry Pi using an image.

The guide is for windows.

Backing up

Download and install Win32DiskImager
Name your image file (UNSW-Revue-Pi-yyyy-mm-dd.img)
Choose the SD Card - if it has multiple partitions, choose the one that is named "boot".
Press "read" to back it up.

Restoring

Download and install Win32DiskImager
Insert the SD card back into your computer.
Head to the start menu or screen and type "disk management." Open the disk management program and find your SD card in the list.
Right-click and delete all the partitions on your SD card. When it's empty, right-click on it and format it (it doesn't matter what filesystem you format it to, your computer just needs to recognise it).
Open Win32DiskImager again and browse for your image file. Select your device from the Device dropdown just as you did before.
This time, click "Write" to write the image to the SD card.
When it finishes, eject the SD card and re-insert it into your Raspberry Pi. When you boot it up, it should be in the exact same state it was in when you first cloned the SD card.

The last time a backup was made

The latest backup resides here: http://burton.icinema.unsw.edu.au/UNSWRevueStatics/UNSW-Revue-Pi-2018-05-03.img

In future, I recommend having a backup USB that sits in the road case.