Using piclone to clone openhabian

[lazloman]

I asked this in the OpenHAB forums, but got answers, so I'm trying here:

I have OH2 (openhabian) running on an RPi3 on a 64GB thumb drive. I’d like to copy the installation to a smaller, 16GB drive. I tried using piclone, but when I try to run it, I get a permissions error. So I launched it using
sudo piclone
as well as
sudo su -
piclone

but when launching it through either of those methods, piclone does not see either the boot or target drives. I was able to test piclone successfully on a Pi that does not have OH2 installed, so I know it can work, but I’m not sure how to proceed under openhabian. Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks

[MaxK1]

You can use rsync or tar to back it up/restore it. Not sure why piclone wouldn't run, though...

[lazloman]

Will using either of those tools make it bootable?

[MaxK1]

No - for that you would need to shrink the image and use dd (or something similar)

[lazloman]

Here is the answer:

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sudo dbus-launch piclone

The technical explanation is here:
https://github.com/raspberrypi-ui/piclone/issues/12