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How to Backup/Clone Your SD Card // 2 MINUTE TUTORIAL!
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- čas přidán 16. 08. 2024
- Setting up retro handhelds is a lot of work, and nobody wants to do it TWICE, so let's learn how to clone the SD card of one device onto a fresh SD card to use the same system on another device. 2 MINUTE TUTORIAL!
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Thanks for getting me started! Wanted to add a simple process for those Mac users :)
1. Mount the original MicroSD on your Mac.
2. Open Terminal.
3. Run: sudo dd if=/dev/disk4 of=/Users/username/Desktop/Anbernic.dd bs=1m && sync &&
sync (replace "username" with your username; this will copy the entire structure to your desktop in a DD file).
4. Eject the original MicroSD.
5. Swap MicroSD cards and mount the one you wish to copy things over to.
6. Using Terminal, run: diskutil list.
7. Identify which drive your MicroSD is (usually, it's the bottom one listed).
8. In Terminal, run: diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk# (replace # with the disk number you identified your MicroSD card as in Step 7; this will unmount the desired MicroSD card).
9. Run: sudo newfs_msdos -F 32 /dev/disk# (replace # with the disk number you identified your MicroSD card as in Step 7; this will format the desired MicroSD card).
10. Run: sudo dd if=/Users/username/Desktop/Anbernic.dd of=/dev/disk4 bs=1m (replace "username" with your username; this will transfer the file to the desired MicroSD card).
11. Once complete, eject the new MicroSD card.
12. Plug into Anbernic system and enjoy!
NOTE: this entire process will take time because you're dealing with ≈ 60+ GB transferring at typically slower speeds (≈ 30 MB/s to 100 MB/s). Be patient and use Control T as a command to check how things are going!
Good to Know Commands
- diskutil list = mounted disks recognized by system
- Control + C = Cancel Command
- Control + T = Status Check
Best tutorial for now. Straight to the point 👍
I wish you had covered what to do about unallocated space in the event that the new SD card is larger than the old one.
What do you mean
@@wizzrobe4998 I have not done this process myself yet, but from prior experience with disk images, if you have, for example, a 64GB source card and create a disk image, then write that image to a 128GB card (as seen in this video) the write process only creates a partition the same size as the source image. That leaves about half the card unallocated and thus unused. BBFL is asking to see how to make the partition larger to use all of the extra space.
Very well done Mr. Dweeb! I personally use Balena Etcher and two sd card readers to make it even simpler, but this way works great too 😊 Always nice to have options!
I didn't know Balena Etcher could read images from SD cards. I just learned something!
@@TechDweebWhen you open it up, the third option down on the left is "Clone". If I didn't use it to burn all of my Linux OS's I wouldn't have known it could do it either, lol. It's weird how when looking for cloning software, Etcher doesn't even come up. It's a slow cloner, but it works.
Great video! You have a such a brilliant way of making seemingly dull hardware processes, both funny and engaging... Now I want to back up an SD card 😂
Thanks for this Tutorial I found it to be very helpful. I have several SD Micro cards I need to backup, but I didn't know to to copy them.
Us “Todd”s out here catching strays lol
You brought back the background music!!!
Even when i'm not looking for your channel and just looking for information, you're here !
Awesome stuff !
I love tutorials like this one! Straight to the point!
thank you so so much I spent 10+ hours today trying to figure this out your video is the only one that I could Understand!!
If your new card has more storage you will need to expand the partition after flashing the backup image to be able to use all of the storage space
True, but I didn't show that here because that's an advanced topic and sometimes it doesn't work unless you reorganize partitions etc. Too much to go over in the 2 minute version of the tutorial
@@TechDweeb please make a video about this topic it could be so cool also because nobody did yet for some reason🙏
@TechDweeb Then please make a 30 minute video on it.! I want my space back.!! 😭😭
Anyone know how to do this? I’ve been googling and everything I find basically erases everything and then what was the point of cloning?
I just got a new handheld and I gotta try this!
Nice!
What would also be awesome is a video demonstrating how to sync your game saves between devices. Using stuff like SyncThing and/or cloud storage software to do so. So non-wifi devices may not be able to benefit.
Yes please! Exactly what I was just planning to do!
I'm a tech dweeb and I just ordered a Retroid Pocket 2S and half of the fun is setting up a new device. I make every single one a little different and I love doing it
I am such a Todd. I don't know how many times I had to shove the adapter into the USB-A hole and pull it out..and in and out..in the beginning...SETTING UP MY HANDHELD.
🤣❤️ Thanks TD as always🌟 Love
I read the comments last time and your responses
(the timer is a nice touch)!!!!
Good to see Tech.😎👍💯
Always Backup your Backup's Backup. That way you'll Summon Backstreet Boys. "Backstreet's Back Alright!".🎶🕺
The BSB's love backups!
@@TechDweeb 2000s rapper Juvenile was also a fan of backups. He made a song about it. If you know, you know. You know?
You are awesome! I love my R36S for on the go and I really wanted to back up my 2 SSD's that came with the device and this worked perfectly. Thank you, Thank you and yeah Thank you!
Good morning TD! I hope today is a good one for you 😊 Very useful long-term content.
2:06 "grab a root beer" wow, I'm already drinking one. I'm the head of the game!
Legend
Keep up the good work! These kind of videos are super helpful for us noobs
Love the “STEP 1” voice
Good one TD, I was going to suggest a viddy about how to move saved states between systems, but this will do.
That's a great suggestion too 👍
Needed this to backup the stock before moving to MuOS
Hey TechDweeb Awesome tutorial! Short and Sweet! Any chance you could do one explaining how to Erease an Image on A Micro SD Card so that it can be Repurposed for newer Image! ?Thanks I appreciate you TechDweeb!
Thanks man
Thank You!!!🔥 It would be VERY kind of you to do a small series of short and fundamental basic (but important) tips that keeps things simple (like this one)☺️👍
Just copy and paste from one sd card to the other. This way seems to add unnecessary extra steps.
Or am i missing something? Seems to work fine for me.
I stumbled across you channel. I'm happy I did. I appreciate your useful tutorials. Great stuff.
Great video, my first retro console is on its way, I’ve been trying to prep and get ready to transfer everything to a new sd card. This by far is the most simple no bs and straightforward video I have found. Thank you sir!!
Did this tutorial work for you
@@wizzrobe4998 yes it worked without a flaw, took less than an hour, and everything is working as it should! Thank you for the video!
@@JoshLosee-cf8qp did you use the stock os
@@wizzrobe4998 yes used the stock os,would like to update to a new os at some point. Maybe that will be in a new video?
@@wizzrobe4998 just realized your not techdweeb. lol usually don’t get any replies on my comments. Haha the only thing different from the video was I had no partitions. Just selected the drive for my usb, saved it as an img, then wrote it to the new sd.
If the second card is larger then you need to enlarge the partition.
How do you do that?
Great info. In process right now. Just an FYI...make sure you install win32diskimage to an actual disk on your computer and not a virtual/cloud disk (like Google Drive) or it won't work. I made that mistake at first and it was driving me crazy until I figured out my error 😂
I cloned it because those cheap SDs seem to be self corrupting ones. With my minimum computer knowledge I just copied the original SD > harddrive > New Sandisk 128GB SD. Now I have a backup on my harddrive as well. It worked flawlessly! 😁
So all you did was drag and drop the files.?
@@39LRich exactly.
Absolutely fantastic video man yours was without a doubt the simplest clearest instruction video on this topic I’ve encountered after 2 days watching CZcams instruction videos. To the algorithm, it would’ve been better to start with this video as it is clearly the best one on the topic.
Good info kid. Thanks.
Thanks for sharing this video and information
Thank you so freaking much ! This worked perfectly, I’m hitting the subscribe!
Hell yeah, I knew how to clone drives, but I forgot about that program. Saving this for future nerd needs when someone ask me
thanks, needed this
My SD car from R36 is with boot and games, now i want to have 2 SD cards one with boot and one with games?
Thanks for this!
how do I allocate the unalocated partition (64GB) to my roms folder? I can create a new partition, but I can't merge them. Any tips/advice?
Might need to use a 3rd party tool like Minitool Partition Wizard (the free version is great)
@@TechDweeb thx
Or if you use Linux, it's basically just old card: "cat /dev/sdb > disk.img" and new card: "cat disk.img > /dev/sdb ; sync". (or whatever /dev entry the card uses) It duplicates the old card bit for bit onto the new card.
But that's an exact clone and won't use the entire card if the new one is bigger. So if you want to resize the filesystem and upgrade to something better than DOS FAT, old card: "mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/card ; rsync -av /mnt/card ~/bak/ ; umount /mnt/card" and new card: "mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1 ; mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/card ; rsync -av ~/bak/card/* /mnt/card ; umount /mnt/card". Essentially, just back up the files from the old card, then format the new card and copy the files onto it.
thx, this video was exactly what I was locking for. peace.
Thanks for the tutorial, but I just have two questions:
What is with all of the pushing and shoving, can't we all just get along?
Will this same process work if I want to clone myself and my alpaca?
How do u copy over just the games sd card too my new sd
I bought a SD card 128GB and now it is only 48GB in size, because of the disc imager. Is there a way to recover this or should i have paid more attention?
Same happened to me
Did you find a fix to get the rest of your space back.?
Down load Sd Card formatter and install. It will give you back your original space
great video! One thing tho I have 62gb card and want to upgrade to 128gb but when I do that I get 100gb of allocated space on the card and system sees it as 2gb... does anyone know how to fix that?
I wish this comment on here wasn’t deleted, but someone asked here “Why can’t I just copy and paste the folders from an old SD card to a new one?”
and T.D replied with “The partitions won’t carry over” or something along the lines of that. Just putting that here in case anyone is thinking the same question
Yep that's right. There are hidden Linux partitions that aren't seen by windows, so cloning the drive is the only way to copy everything over in the exact same configuration.
Straight forward thank you 🙏
Ctrl + a, ctrl + c, ctrl + v - I do it "retro" style :D
What about the linux partitions?
..oh and please tell me what is this micro Gameboy on the left next to the Micro-SD Card at 00:50 and where can I get it. I absolutely need it🥰
Win32 Disk Imager is a pain in the ass because it simply won't work if you have a mounted drive in your PC like Google Drive. I'm still searching for an alternative.
Thank you bro!!
I want to duplicate my SD card from my Armbreaker RG351MP to my PowHittler RGB30
I thought we were gonna clone some “dinasars!” - like Mr. DNA
I gotta get on the emulation handheld band wagon. I want one! Big time!
hey there how are u,,. irecently flashed my new sd card with akros for my r36s it booted up fine but now i want to add the games from the stock os sd to my new sd card..how do i go about doing that
What about those dock stations for duplicating/cloning sd cards? Is that not the same thing or just generally more expensive route to take?
Do you know why error 5 comes up after to click on write? Thanks
Bravo sir! Easy and straight to the point. Do you happen to have a tik tok? I got lots of questions about these devices and I want to point ppl to a page. Or can i clip some of your videos with permission?
I’ve just got my RG35XX Plus, is this what I should do so I can use a more reliable SD card rather than the one that came with it?
You should point out that it has to be the same handheld, like, you couldn't clone a miyoo mini card and then use it in an RG35XX for example.
The fun begin try to clone a partioned sd. And then try make a partion bigger for the new sd. And there is a corrupt file on the original sd that cant be deleted. So it cant change the partion.
What’s the difference with CTRL+C, CTRL+V ?
This won't erase everything from the original SD card will it? I lost my last SD cards data and now I want to make 3 backups in case when I'm adding a game it corrupts the card again I don't have to start from scratch.
Won’t the “rom” partition be the exact same size since we’re cloning the old card?
Thanks Dweeb, you’re awesome.
Even if you use a purse!
Make your console black in a few easy steps!
how to clone to bigger size, like from stock 64gb to 128 256gb?
the same size as stock card too tight to test anything new
thanks
Sir can I use clips from this video with credit to your youtube?
Sure! As long as you give credit I'm cool with that :)
I'm getting an error, not enough disk space when i read.
I follow all instructions as described and win32 said it was successful in both reading and writing, but when I loaded the newly cloned micro SD card in, it booted up as if no SD card was inserted. I checked the new SD card and it looks like all the files did transfer. I noticed that when I went to write the newly created image, the file was a .file and not a .img as yours showed. Someone please help I can't keep flashing unsuccessful micro SD cards it's expensive
this bricked my brand new sd card lmao
The noise going into the a hole😂
Would this be the same if I wanna clone to a bigger sd card ? Help please
Can you do a tutorial on cloning Linux drives like the game drives... Because my old SD card purged all the games and I am struggling to get my other SD card to clone
will this process work for both the os sd card and the rom sd card? i need to clone both to two different sd cards
Listen to Tech. It's true!. I have Super Powers!. I Summoned the Backstreet Boys!!!. 🤯👋
I can do this to the stock os micro card that came with my rg35xx h right? And will it carry over all save files and save states? Just want to have that in case I want to come back from custom os.
Yup!
What OS are you using and what theme are you using @2:51 thanks
Does this work with the RG35XX H / SP series? I d like to backup the card it came with, but understand it uses some linux filesystem that i assume doesn'T work with windows pc?
Forgive my ignorance, why wouldn’t copying all files from one sd to another do the trick?
Sometimes, but usually not. There are often hidden Linux partitions on there, so the files you see in Windows are only some of the files you need. This method literally clones all the data on the card so no worries about hidden files, locked files, or partitions.
Is that Batocera on a MiyooMini Plus? If so, you got a really cool tutorial on install? Thank you much!
When I try to write the file the program just does nothing then after about 30 seconds it vanishes. Any ideas?
Do you need to have the space on your computer hard drive to do this? Is there a way to just clone the sd card directly to the new sd card in one hit?
Is it suppose to take like a whole day?. (My laptop isn’t the best)
I have a question for the guy who made this video I want to clone the new SD card I got for my steam deck will this work for that too??
Yup! It should work for ANY sd card, from any system, as long as it can be recognized by your PC. I think it should work fine.
Why did you use USB A instead of the USB C plug? Does it make a difference?
Why can’t you just copy and paste the whole sd card to a file?
Could you share you're image file then we don't have to go through all the trouble of setting the first one up
Really simple instructions but every time I try using Win32 Disk imager to read the original SD card, The speed starts good until just 2% and then the time just increases instead of going down. It's going below 0.6 MB/s in speed. which is causing it to go up to 10+ hours. Any ideas why this could be and what I can do?
Hey, I recently acquired an snes mini that came with the hakchi hack already installed. The roms and everything are on a flash drive. I watched your video on how to copy an sd drive, and thought perhaps I could take the same approach with the flash drive that came with the snes mini (I just honestly wanted to make a backup of the usb drive in case it ever got corrupted). Well, I followed your steps and the new flash drive has all the same files from the original, however when I connect it to the snes mini, it just boots up in the snes minis normal operating screen. What did I do wrong?
i need a video on how to clone those massive HDD with the thousands of games on them. i wanna make copies for my family
After reading the sd card, the file change is not an image file
That normal?
May sound like a dumb question but if I have an as card reader for my phone can I do this the same way or do I have to have a computer ?
Will this also copy your game progress that you've made? Do you know of a good/quick way of wiping all that kind of stuff? Or does it just depend on the OS you're cloning?