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I thought i did it all right. I had an image and backups from my raspberry When the Raspberry crashed I thought: "just plugin the copy sdcard in another raspberry and run"

But it wasn't that simple (far from that), because the new raspberry I bought was a different version. I had to re-install and configure many things from again.

My question is. Is there a way you can make a backup, so you can restore it to a sd-card. without without configure/install ?

Richard de Ree
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I suppose your are using Raspbian. It depends on how old your installation is that you make the image from. Older installations are not able to run on Raspberry Pi 3B+. You didn't tell us what "different version" means for your new Raspberry Pi. I suppose it is a RPi 3B+, and your old installation is made on a RPi 3B (for example). A clone from the RPi 3B will not run on a RPi 3B+ in that case. You have to use a newer version of Raspbian. This will run on all versions of a Raspberry Pi. If you make an image of the Raspbian version from the new running Raspberry Pi, that should also run in your older model. Just put the SD Card from new RasPi into the older one to check this.

Seamus
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Ingo
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Have you tried using sd card copier??? It comes with pi itself. You do need a spare sd but it will clone the card so if you want a duplicate or backup you'll have it and you can just put the other card in a pi as and when.

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