DD BAckup, am I doing right

  • Hi,

    Hope this is the right area for this.

    I take a nightly backup of my sd card to disk, but also want to do a weekly clone, just in case it fails totally.

    I have a cron job that runs, but I'm not sure if it's doing what I want after the first time it was run.


    The command is :


    sudo dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=/dev/dev/disk/by-id/usb-Mass_Storage_Device_"SerNumber":0.


    The output disk is /dev/sdc but I used its ID to stop it overwriting any SD card I was stupid enough to leave in the reader if I forgot.


    The output I get is:


    Method: ddfull

    Device file: /dev/root

    Root drive: /dev/mmcblk0

    1+0 records in

    1+0 records out

    446 bytes copied, 0.000312293 s, 1.4 MB/s

    1+0 records in

    1+0 records out

    512 bytes copied, 0.00020172 s, 2.5 MB/s

    Boot drive: /dev/sdc1

    Using dd full disk...


    Backup works and produces a bootable SD card, but my concern is the 2nd to last line, is it saying that I'm backing up from my backup SDcard bootable section over itself?


    Many thanks

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