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billw2/rpi-clone

A shell script to clone a booted disk. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/billw2/rpi-clone · Shell · BSD-3-Clause (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

32/100

  • Activity 0
  • Release rhythm 35
  • Longevity 100

Flags: no_releases

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 4976
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 895
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

2796 stars · 378 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

rpi-clone is a standalone shell script for cloning a running Raspberry Pi's booted disk (SD card or USB) to a bootable destination disk. It supports both full initialization clones and fast incremental syncs of matching partitions.

Use cases

  • clone a running raspberry pi sd card to a new sd card
  • back up a booted raspberry pi to a usb drive
  • incrementally sync changes from a pi disk to a backup disk
  • migrate a raspberry pi installation to a larger sd card
  • make a bootable copy of a live raspberry pi system

When to choose

  • you need to clone or back up a live Raspberry Pi disk without shutting it down
  • you want incremental backups that only copy changed files after the first clone
  • you want automatic partitioning of the destination disk

When to avoid

  • you need officially supported cloning on non-Raspberry-Pi Debian desktops or other OSes
  • you need a GUI disk imaging tool
  • you are not running a Debian-based system with apt-get for dependency installation

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

backup file-system cli developer-tools developer-tools self-hosted operating-systems cli raspberry-pi disk-cloning shell-script sd-card incremental-sync linux

1 source

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
billw2/rpi-clonemain32

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