# billw2/rpi-clone

A shell script to clone a booted disk.

Repository: https://github.com/billw2/rpi-clone
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/rpi-clone
Language: Shell
License: BSD-3-Clause
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2024-03-21T12:51:42+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4976, "days_push": 895, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2796, forks 378 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:22.349474+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: backup, file-system, cli, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, self-hosted, operating-systems
- platform: cli
- tags: raspberry-pi, disk-cloning, shell-script, sd-card, incremental-sync, linux

## Member repositories
- billw2/rpi-clone (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:22.349474+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:49:12.512415+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/billw2/rpi-clone (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:22.349474+00:00, sha b97810ed0d15)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.