How to Clone Your Batocera System
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- čas přidán 2. 12. 2022
- This tutorial will teach you how to clone your Batocera system. Two methods will be demonstrated: a paid software method and a free method. The pros and cons of both methods will be demonstrated in this video.
Links mentioned in this video:
www.diskpart.com/free-partiti... (cloning software)
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www.balena.io/etcher/
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I wish there were more people like you who would provide all the information I needed to setup not just Batocera, but every other kind of emulation front end and Linux system. I say this, because I've been using Retrobat recently, which is also powered by EmulationStation. Unfortunately, while I can find tutorials on how to install it, setting it all up is another story. But thank you so much for your dedication to helping everyone getting Batocera working according to their liking.
Thank you so much for this video and this channel! A week ago, I had never used Batocera. Now, thanks to your videos, I feel like I have a nice understanding of it, and it sure is a lot of fun! I successfully cloned my system this morning, and now have it on a bigger SD card. Thanks again!
Excellent video, I'm glad there is someone explaining these small details that often get overlooked by others on youtube. I would like to add that anyone using Raspberry pi, there is a built in drive copier built into it's default Operating system: Rpios. That works too.
Absolute legend, my college asked if I could make a duplicate of my system I had.
And that's when your video was needed.
Thanks for bringing content like this to the open community, SO to ur channel Batocera Nation!
Glad that it came in handy.
Exactly what I was trying to work out. Thanks mate.
Your videos help me a ton. Commenting to try to help out with the algorithm
Great video as usual. Thank you so much!!!
The free way is so simple there's no contest here.
As always, a fantastic video!
If you would like to save your image as a backup file that you can write to as many other drives you want Win32 Disk Imager is a fantastic free solution as well. You can then use Etcher to write the image file to your preferred storage medium.
You can shrink the image file with GParted if it ends up being slightly too big for your drive.
Just keep in mind your image backup will be using a significant amount of storage wherever you choose to save it.
Belanaetcher is great for this purpose, it will clone everything perfectly from my experience, it worked really well with emuelec cloning, my batocera build is way more valuable I've only just set it up on a 500gb hdd and it's almost full but imma switch to a 480gb ssd then get a 1tb ssd to replace it I might even compress some files 1st... instead of removing 20gb of games, its running well so far on the beelink sei8 i5-8279u 16gb model apart from a bit of occasional stutter on some games without using hacks 💯
thank you for this! here's hoping it will make saving a backup easier for migration to batocera v0.36 :)
very important lesson right there !!! 👍
I would love to see how to transfer roms, box art, & videos from launchbox to Batocera. If you have time, it would be awesome to see a video on this.
Well done ! Aomei is good and i use it for windows clones. If you are able to prepare a ubuntu USB Boot stick : you can work with GNOME disks to image disks and partitions, and you can copy partitions with gparted. Open source and Linux based like batocera. I only make partition clones of the boot partition (fat32). The share partition can be then flexibly prepared with NTFS, ext4, btrfs (in my case a nas drive) and so on. Use refind for dualboot. For trained linuxers there are many flexible options to install existing batocera builds on internal harddisks without destroying windows.
Oh man this is great. Thank you
I installed to the new drive from the Batocera menu of the existing drive and then overwrote the Share folder. Took hours to copy over but it worked!
Did this work ?
Yes, it works that way.
Cheers. I used win2imager to make an image of the original microSD card onto a HDD, then use it to write the image to the new bigger card. This doesn't make use of the of extra space, so you edit the boot-config.conf to activate autoresize. It seems to work ok and is free. What I did find was that batocera behaves a bit odd when the mSD card is full - for some reason, deleting roms doesn't give you back some space. And then at one point the theme changed by itself and roms stopped working . Not sure what happened but in the end I just wrote the image again and was more careful about keeping to the mSD card capcity.
Thank you, sir.
Thanks for Sharing. You really should use your awesome Voice for Movie Audio Sync. I watched you Video several Times, and had always the feeling, i was watching this kind of "Old New York Italian Gangster" Movie. I like the Video, but i love your Voice. ❤
I absolutely love this intro theme! Which is it? I don't recall seeing it on version 35.
Also, I tried this with Etcher once. If you were to clone a 256gb drive onto a 500gb drive, will you still be able to add more games & such in order to eventually fill the entire 500gb drive?
What theme are you using in the intro? Looks awesome! And thank you for the great info.
I made this entirely inside batocera, first formatting the external to ext4, then install batocera there, then turn off the system, boot the new flashed hdd (for the system make the resizes ), turn off the system again, now boot from the original hdd, while inside the batocera Ui , connect the newer batocera drive, now, backup batocera folders into that newer drive.
Recently swapped out my 2TB HDD for a 4TB SSD.
I just simply moved all folders across.
No issues there but the only thing was all but one of my emulators settings were back to default auto settings.
So had to go through all emu settings and set them again.
Not a huge issue just takes a little time.
But what was a major pain was for higher systems like ps2,xbox,gamecube I had some per game settings,so to check and set each of them (from memory) was defo a pain and time consuming.
Thanks!!
I always use Macrium Relect Free to create images for duplication and/r restoration.
Have you tried this for batocera? I just did and it didn't work. Drive was not bootable. I simply used the "clone disk" option.
This is why you use Ventoy from the first place before customizing your batocera.
Just expand the share partition using a tool like disk genies then you are all set. Whenever you want to backup your system just copy and paste the already customized image.
Great stuff as always, I was wondering if you know any plans if any for N-gage and maybe Amazon library?
thank you
balena etcher clone works fine. but you have to take out the usb after you clone because it conflicts and doesn't show up. as far as windows is concerned, you've got 2 items that are exactly the same in and it doesn't know how to display both.
I watched another CZcamsr's video showing how to use a clone function on Etcher as well. It looked simple. All you need to do at the end is to resize the disk drive if the new disk has a larger volume. With that method, no hassle to redo the settings, themes, and bunches of configurations again. I don't understand this CZcamsr method trying to flash a new disk with Etcher and manually copy the files. It looks impractical if you have lots of tweaks in the configuration like Sinden gun setting.
you should use the backup feature of batocera to do it
I did everything with your first method. When i booted up the copy, it was showing the same size disk as the original. After doing a little research. I had to get gparted on a flash drive and resize the partition with the extra unallocated space.
My Batocera is on a 64GB microSD card so i just use Balena to clone. I had to revert back to v33 due to a problem with the latest v35. I managed to go straight from my 64GB SD backup to the microSD.
Can you advise what theme you're running. Very nice.
Can you do a vid on Netplay for Batocera? I’m confused about some things
Macrium reflect will clone batocera for free the one downside with cloning is that if you clone a smaller sized drive to a larger one it will not uttilise the larger capacity of the bigger drive so maybe the free batocera way is the route to go if that's what you're planning on doing.
Linux gparted can resize ext4 partitions properly.
I used a live Ubuntu distribution yesterday to clone from a 2gb to 5gb and once booted ran gparted, copied the boot partition from the original drive and then pasted it to the new drive and clicked the check mark to complete the operation. Next I did the same thing with the share partition. When that finished I re-sized the share partition to use the remaining unallocated space and my drive seems to be working fine. Is there anything wrong with the way I did it? That kept me from having to pay for any software and also kept me from having to do a copy and paste of my share folder because when I tried it that way before I got read/write errors on a few hundred files 10 hours into the process and had to start over.
@@joeypowell05 you did it well!😆 I use to double check with gparted the new enlarged fs, but honestly, that is not necessary as gparted does it after any resize action. In years i had not one accident with gparted, and i do it a lot on regular basis with windows and linux installs. you can also check in batoceras system info that new space is detected. Note, you did not need to install a prog on your win system.
@@antoniobanderas7208 thank you for confirming. I saw this video after the fact and was second-guessing myself about the method I chose because what I did was easy enough to me, I couldn’t understand why more people wouldn’t use it.
The bato35 migration wave.also bato plus released a 26version.
thanks this u=is great but i have had issues where the image does not pick up things like sound drivers or wifi drivers for the new pc is there a command to force it to detect new hardware?
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Another great video. Do video card settings and Kodi config remain intact after writing over files? Edit: Yes, the Kodi settings remain intatct when coping the files over to the new drive. But i did notice that WiiU is not showing up in the menu (but all files have been copied). Maybe it's a bios file issue?
Just a thought there is a cloner in Etcher
As long as you are using standard SSD drives and not nvme then you can simply buy a dual sata docking station with clone feature for about £25 and clone one drive from another without it even being plugged into a PC. This is the option I use and it has never failed me, everything including save states and themes copy oerfectly
Thanks for you video.
However, something is not clear: around 5:00, once you've cloned your hard drive with Balena Etcher, you still have to copy your share partition to the cloned disk? If that's the case, then what has been cloned with Balena Etcher?
He didn't clone with Etcher, he made a new Batocera install on a new drive. Then he copied games, screens, and most settings inside of Batocera from his original driver.
You didn't mention in the video how you got the image to burn on to the disc in balena. How do you get an image copy of your previous drive?
The last time I tried to clone a batocera drive it wouldn't boot. So I usually just write a new image and have an external drive with the roms to drag and drop
Am I right that for option 1 (cloning software) you would need two SSD enclosures so you can have both the new SSD and the existing Botacera system SSD both plugged into the windows PC which is running the cloning software?
macrium reflect allows you to make an image of a drive and restore it where you want. And its free to use. I think its the best because if your computer is working perfect or you want to make some big changes and test software or maybe just test something shady and you create the image of your c drive which usually takes 3 minutes for me and you can restore it exactly how it was before you made those changes. Same rule applies to cloning. you can finalize your build with all roms and features and themes and just clone it but the problem is that right now im unsure because one of my laptops doesn't seem to recognize batocera and I want to find out why because it is the newest laptop.
Are there any plans of Batocera for the Nividia Shield TV?
What theme is that, I cant seem to find it in the downloads. The one at about 30 seconds in, I mean.
ES-THEME-Platform
I clone my batocera in balena etcher clone source to target and its copy everything same cfrom source to target drive .
Was wondering if you could give me some help
I have installed batocera on external 2tb harddrive and everything working, ps1, ps2 dreamcast ect but when transferring ps2 roms I ran out of space so checked and said I had used 72.5 out of 72.6 gb, was wondering how to open up rest of the 2tb. Would be appreciated
Hope you didn't get a fake 2tb, as there are many fake, cheap drives. You should be able to see the available disk space using any partitioning software, try using and open source free tool such as Gparted to see if it can view the entire disk. You can also extend the disk partition, without data loss if there is free space available. Good luck.
Do both processes also copy all file settings like hidden files/roms/bios roms? I’d hate to have to manually hide all the fbneo ._bios roms one by one again.
What does the cloning option in balenaEthcher do?
I'm running it on an HP Prodesk with an I7 8th gen
I'm upgrading from a 256gb into a 512 GB NVME, since the computer has only one slot.. it affects the maneuver if I place one of the disk into a USB case?
Anyway to get ahold of your game library?
How do I resize the partition? Like go from 1TB to 2TB after cloning? I stiil see only 1TB of space on a 2TB SSD.
You could do it with a partition program.
So if you have the cloned drive attached to your PC you can do it there with certain programs.
Disk genius for eg can detect and read linux partitions in windows.
It can also resize partitions. But most features for this program are paid.
Does cloning work from say a mini PC Batocera to Steam Deck version?
How did you make image file of your batocera flash
It is possible to save emulators settings ?
I have a question. I have Aomei in the free version. I notice that when I open it, it has the clone disc option. Why do I have to use the paid version if the option is available on the free one? Anybody?
i was wondering same. also, balena etcher has clone option too. i'm going to try them and see. maybe it's a question of disk size difference???
Did the clone software work for flash drive? I’m currently using 128gb flash drive for batocera & wanna clone it to larger drive
i tried this same approach using a different clonning tool, it will clone 128GB on the larger driver, however you wont be able to utilize more than128GB on larger driver since partition was also clonned. i May Suggest you can do the free way
Great video again. But I have a problem, I had an 128gb usb stick and upgraded to 256gb stick. But I only see 128gb space storage. I used the paid version to clone the usb stick. Is there something I can do?
I haven't done it myself, but I've seen others suggest using gparted to increase the partition size
@@billmiller5722 I did it with the free method. Copied the folders and everything works. Thank you. :)
I also have the same problem, I bought the paid version to seeped up the process but everything is going wrong 🤣 if you are going to clone everything to a bigger disk you will have a partition that couldn’t be fusion with the other, I guess due to the file format.
I was talking about ext4 format that can’t not modify with the paid version.
So I’m thinking in get my money back because it is not working for me as good as I wanted
we downloaded Batocera with Etcher and when you boot the batocera on the usb it shoots by loading linux and then goes to black screen, any idea?
The graphics card on your PC is causing this. If it's really old graphics card, it won't boot up properly due to lack of drivers.
@@BatoceraNation its a Lenovo T61 can i just download updates for drivers? not sure which one would work!
Will this work on any SSD? I have a 500GB SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD. Compatibility is:
USB Type-C or/ou USB Type-A port. USB 3.2 Gen-2
(10Gb/S) or/ou USB 3.0
(5Gb/s) or/ou USB 2.0
It is compatible with my Windows 10
Now for my pc, I have a Lenovo Legion. Here are the device specifications:
Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 4600H with Radeon Graphics 3.00 GHz
Installed RAM 32.0 GB
Yes, it should be compatible, but it will all depend on how you want to use this disk. You will probably have to reformat the disk from the orginal exfat to be able support Batocera's file system requirement. Batocera is using Linux, and has it's own boot partition as well as the entire filesystem is ext4. So if you were to use the entire drive, then you could just use Etcher to install Batocera onto the external USB SSD, then once it has been installed, you will go into your Lenovo Legion boot menu (F12, I think) and choose the SanDisk Portable SSD, and it should boot off it.
does this work copying from a raspberry pi 4?
Has Steam been fixed for Batocera?
I got problem my free space is only 20mb. My sd card is 128gb but no have empty space to put games etc what is wrong? i fixit change sd card to legit one ! no problem :d
Clonezilla?
Just use a dock. Way easier
You can't just copy and paste?
I took all the time to master Batocera and found out that not all modern laptops are compatible with using external HDD as boot devices. I'm going to investigate if its just the device or batocera because it boots on an older laptop but not the newer one and it makes no sense. whats the point of even using this if you cant go all the way to the switch and ps3. not all of us grew up on atari.
Some newer laptops have that Bitlocker built in which makes it hard to run another OS on it. That has nothing do to with Batocera and Batocera has no control over it. The PC manufacturers install this and sometimes you can unlock it or disable it. Look to see if your laptop has a security lock installed and see if you can disable it so that you can use Batocera on it.
Used the paid software and cloned my drive, drive cloned to says missing os and the source won't boot at all.... waste of time and money...
why do you call the software sector clone paid? if you download the free version it does the same thing.
From my own experience a few years back, I think that the cloning part on that particular software is free but the restoring part is not
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Has anyone changed the file system on the drive? Inside batocera there is a tools folder for btfrs file system but I don’t know what it does. I want to change file system so that wine runs games much better but without losing data. Is this even possible?
As it states, its to change the file format type, I believe if you did this it wipes any files you have on so if you do that do it after a fresh flash before you put games on.
I actually never tried doing it within Batocera but I have externally.
In that mean I used to boot Batocera from a flash drive and run roms from a sep portable drive but the portable drive was formatted to ntfs. This is so I could drag and drop files over from another PC.
But I cant say if PC games will run any better using ext4,btfrs, ntfs, exfat or anything else.
The Batocera wiki has some info on using diff file systems. Have a look there.
I have easy method!
in BlaenaEtcher app third option is Clone Drive I try it and his work.
Hello AMAZING FRONTEND but i have some Questions:
Is it possible to do in Batocera:
1. I understand that the batocera is fully configurable, so you can upload your own video, covers, etc. without modifying the file?
2. Is it possible to set Batocere to launch a different video intro in Hs each time it is started? Can this be done using the Randomizer program?
3. You can do a circle in a circle, the so-called Hs Nested wheels, I enter the collection of the so-called Consoles and I have a list of PSX, PS2 consoles, etc. and only after entering a given console do I choose a game?
4. Loading screen and video like e.g. in Hs?
3.Is there such a thing as Hyperpause?
5. Bezel question
- Changing the bezel with a button to another on the fly
- Is it possible to put an instruction card on the Bezel
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6. Are there any systems that Batocera does not support ?
If you can do such miracles, then Batocera THE BEST OF THE BEST KING and you can support such a frontend🤩😍🤩😍
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