backup copy

[matth]

Hello, I’ve set up my Hudiy and it’s working very well. I’d now like to purchase a new license and create a backup copy of my installation in case my SD card ever gets damaged. Could someone tell me the best way to go about making this copy? My setup consists of a Raspberry Pi 5 combined with a Geekworm x1205 UPS HAT. Thanks for your help.

[hudiy]

The simplest method is to create a full dump of the SD card to an image file. You can use a tool like dd on Linux for this or other programs like Win32 Disk Imager. Afterward, this image file can be shrunk to reduce its size (removing the empty/unused space from the drive that was copied to the file) - there are several tools on GitHub that can do this, e. g. PiShrink.