command line version of piclone?

[PjV]

Hi,

My query in short: Is there a command line version of piclone?
(see: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/anothe ... -raspbian/ scroll down to SD card copier)
I have a 'headless' PI running Jessie Lite, so I can't run piclone from the UI. Via SSH I can access the device.

(Edit: it's piclone, not picopy)

[scotty101]

Yes. it's called dd and is a standard *nix tool and how we used to copy .img files to SD cards back in the old days.

[mikerr]

picopy ("piclone") isn't the same as dd

dd is a direct byte for byte copy - so resulting .img would be huge, and also can't copy to smaller sd cards

piclone first sets up partitons, then does a file based copy - so can move a 32GB SD card install to 8 GB etc..

In the github for piclone, there is the original command line script here:

https://github.com/raspberrypi-ui/piclo ... src/backup

[PjV]

Thanks Mike,

I corrected the name of the tool.
The link you provided looks to be what I needed

[PlanB]

I pasted the above code into a file I named sdclone & tried to run it. I got.....
[email protected]:/home/pi# bash sdclone
umount: 9: mountpoint not found
umount: 8: mountpoint not found
umount: 7: mountpoint not found
umount: 6: mountpoint not found
umount: 5: mountpoint not found
umount: 4: mountpoint not found
umount: 3: mountpoint not found
umount: 2: mountpoint not found
umount: 1: mountpoint not found
dd: failed to open ‘’: No such file or directory
Error: Could not stat device mklabel - No such file or directory.
Retry/Cancel?
Clearly my simple minded approach has missed some detail. Is there a simple guide for how to get piclone working on Jessie lite where there is no startx or pixel?

[SkyRise]

The script requires the target device on the command line

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sdclone /dev/sdx

Make sure to get /dev/sdx right, or (as usual) you could wipe out your pi...
(oh, and will probably need to be run as root too)

[PlanB]

Thnx for the tip, any idea how to fix the 'operation not permitted' errors?

[email protected]:/home/pi# bash sdclone /dev/sda
umount: /dev/sda9: mountpoint not found
umount: /dev/sda8: mountpoint not found
umount: /dev/sda7: mountpoint not found
umount: /dev/sda6: mountpoint not found
umount: /dev/sda5: mountpoint not found
umount: /dev/sda4: mountpoint not found
umount: /dev/sda3: mountpoint not found
umount: /dev/sda2: not mounted
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
512 bytes (512 B) copied, 0.0219021 s, 23.4 kB/s
Information: You may need to update /etc/fstab.

Information: You may need to update /etc/fstab.

mkfs.fat 3.0.27 (2014-11-12)
mkfs.fat: /dev/sda1 contains a mounted filesystem.
‘/tmp/tmp.yDOGKpbbDU/./COPYING.linux’ -> ‘/tmp/tmp.p8jDE1pUJ8/././COPYING.linux’
cp: failed to preserve ownership for ‘/tmp/tmp.p8jDE1pUJ8/././COPYING.linux’: Operation not permitted
‘/tmp/tmp.yDOGKpbbDU/./LICENCE.broadcom’ -> ‘/tmp/tmp.p8jDE1pUJ8/././LICENCE.broadcom’
cp: failed to preserve ownership for ‘/tmp/tmp.p8jDE1pUJ8/././LICENCE.broadcom’: Operation not permitted
‘/tmp/tmp.yDOGKpbbDU/./bcm2708-rpi-b-plus.dtb’ -> ‘/tmp/tmp.p8jDE1pUJ8/././bcm2708-rpi-b-plus.dtb’
cp: failed to preserve ownership for ‘/tmp/tmp.p8jDE1pUJ8/././bcm2708-rpi-b-plus.dtb’: Operation not permitted
‘/tmp/tmp.yDOGKpbbDU/./bcm2708-rpi-b.dtb’ -> ‘/tmp/tmp.p8jDE1pUJ8/././bcm2708-rpi-b.dtb’
cp: failed to preserve ownership for ‘/tmp/tmp.p8jDE1pUJ8/././bcm2708-rpi-b.dtb’: Operation not permitted
‘/tmp/tmp.yDOGKpbbDU/./bcm2709-rpi-2-b.dtb’ -> ‘/tmp/tmp.p8jDE1pUJ8/././bcm2709-rpi-2-b.dtb’

[PlanB]

I get a similar gripe when I try to use Bill Wilson's rpi-clone

[rpdom]

Thnx for the tip, any idea how to fix the 'operation not permitted' errors?

Just ignore them. They're harmless. It's just the copy trying to set the ownership and permissions on the files, but the VFAT file system in /boot doesn't support them.

[peterscargill]

Interesting responses in here including the smartalec DD response. PICLONE is definitely NOT DD.

I got mountpoint not found for sda9 through 3, but that is to be expected. sda2 and 1 not found. re-reading partition table failed - resource busy, HOWEVER, it DOES seem to be working, now half way through partition 2 which begs the question why the warnings and apparent error on rereading the table?

Desktop CD Copy has always worked for me and so I've no reason to think this command line version won;t... ignoring those mountpoint warnings, is that re-read failed message is maybe important? Dialog says copy complete. Rebooted onto new SD. Works.. but that message is bugging me.

Did this on a PI2 with full Raspbian.

[dckornbluh]

I used sdclone successfully (see github link above) and it got me out of a pickle. I have an RPi model 3A+ which has only one USB port. This enabled me to SSH in and successfully clone the current SD card.

Tips for newbies: use command lsblk which yields

• NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
  sda 8:0 1 7.4G 0 disk
  ├─sda1 8:1 1 41.8M 0 part
  └─sda2 8:2 1 7.4G 0 part
  mmcblk0 179:0 0 7.4G 0 disk
  ├─mmcblk0p1 179:1 0 1.8G 0 part /tmp/tmp.egPTiZW7gf
  ├─mmcblk0p5 179:5 0 32M 0 part
  ├─mmcblk0p6 179:6 0 69M 0 part /boot
  └─mmcblk0p7 179:7 0 5.6G 0 part /

Then I used this command:

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sudo ./sdclone /dev/sda /dev/macblk0

[HawaiianPi]

Then I used this command:

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sudo ./sdclone /dev/sda /dev/macblk0

Shouldn't that be mmcblk0 (not macblk0)?

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sudo ./sdclone /dev/sda /dev/mmcblk0

[huongminh]

I follow steps below and successfully clone my sd card. However, the cloned card does not boot. Please help!

I used sdclone successfully (see github link above) and it got me out of a pickle. I have an RPi model 3A+ which has only one USB port. This enabled me to SSH in and successfully clone the current SD card.

Tips for newbies: use command lsblk which yields

• NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
  sda 8:0 1 7.4G 0 disk
  ├─sda1 8:1 1 41.8M 0 part
  └─sda2 8:2 1 7.4G 0 part
  mmcblk0 179:0 0 7.4G 0 disk
  ├─mmcblk0p1 179:1 0 1.8G 0 part /tmp/tmp.egPTiZW7gf
  ├─mmcblk0p5 179:5 0 32M 0 part
  ├─mmcblk0p6 179:6 0 69M 0 part /boot
  └─mmcblk0p7 179:7 0 5.6G 0 part /

Then I used this command:

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sudo ./sdclone /dev/sda /dev/macblk0