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. device configuration. There are 3 possible scenarios:

1. /boot and / to SD card
2. /boot on SD card and / externally on an SSD, USB disk or USB stick (Older Rasperry, which cannot use USB 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 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 the rest of the USB device can be used for further partitions.

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