Move the Raspberry operating system from SD card to SSD, USB disk or USB stick

raspiBackup is designed to restore a backup to the original device configuration. There are 3 possible scenarios:

1. /boot and / on SD card
2. /boot on SD card and / externally on an SSD, USB disk or USB stick (older Raspberries which do not support USB boot mode). Also called hybrid boot mode.
3. /boot and / on an SSD, USB disk or USB stick (USB boot mode on newer Raspberries)

raspiBackup can also be used to easily migrate from (1) to (2) or (3).

To do this, a backup is created with raspiBackup and then restored to the new device configuration.

The following restore command is required for (2) as the migration target:

sudo raspiBackup.sh -d <SD card> -R <USB device> <Backup>

For (3) the following command is required to restore:

sudo raspiBackup.sh -d <USB device> <Backup>

Where <USB device> can be an SSD, a USB disk or a USB stick.

If you want to move to a large USB device, the option --resizeRootFS- is useful, which does not expand the root partition, because then the rest of the USB device can be used for further partitions.

Details on the restore can be found in "Restore".