# Best way for backup sd-card?
**URL:** https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/best-way-for-backup-sd-card/726
**Category:** GameShell
**Tags:** sd-card
**Created:** [July 25, 2018, 9:00am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/best-way-for-backup-sd-card/726 "2018-07-25T09:00:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@viper-sg2](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/viper-sg2)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2018, 9:00am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/best-way-for-backup-sd-card/726/1 "2018-07-25T09:00:57Z")
Hey, i received my GameShell yesterday and i’m very exiting to play with.
But first, I would like to make a backup of the SD card. Does anyone have a suggestion for the best way for me?
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### Author:  [@Abbadon](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/Abbadon)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2018, 9:09am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/best-way-for-backup-sd-card/726/2 "2018-07-25T09:09:50Z")
The image that is on the SD card is the same that is available for download [here](https://github.com/clockworkpi/GameShellDocs/blob/master/clockworkos_v0.1.img.bz2.torrent). So technically there already is a backup.
But to answer your question: try using [win32diskimager](https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/) if you are on windows. It can read your SD card and store it as an image. And if you want to reflash your SD card you can write the image you created to the SD card.
If you are on Linux you can use the dd command, but be carefull using that!
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### Author:  [@viper-sg2](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/viper-sg2)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2018, 9:24am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/best-way-for-backup-sd-card/726/3 "2018-07-25T09:24:22Z")
Thank you very much. That helps 🙂
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### Author:  [@skywalker101](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/skywalker101)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2018, 9:55am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/best-way-for-backup-sd-card/726/4 "2018-07-25T09:55:20Z")
I recommend:
> **[balenaEtcher - Flash OS images to SD cards & USB drives](https://www.balena.io/etcher/)**
>
> A cross-platform tool to flash OS images onto SD cards and USB drives safely and easily. Free and open source for makers around the world.
&
[https://wiki.libreelec.tv/libreelec\_usb-sd\_creator](https://wiki.libreelec.tv/libreelec_usb-sd_creator)
These are very stable!
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### Author:  [@Abbadon](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/Abbadon)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2018, 9:59am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/best-way-for-backup-sd-card/726/5 "2018-07-25T09:59:25Z")
I would normally recommend Etcher as well (already did somewhere else in the forum), but as far as I know it does not have an option to create an image from an SD card. It can only write images to SD cards.
Please correct me if I’m wrong.
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### Author:  [@skywalker101](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/skywalker101)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2018, 10:13am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/best-way-for-backup-sd-card/726/6 "2018-07-25T10:13:50Z")
Oh I didn’t know that. The libreelec program does let you backup the file.
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### Author:  [@Metalcory](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/Metalcory)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2018, 10:46am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/best-way-for-backup-sd-card/726/7 "2018-07-25T10:46:36Z")
This is usefully for me because once you have a cool structure of your directories, games, cores, new icons or shortcuts in the desktop… Cant´image if I loose all this configuration! BEtter make an SD backup eventually…