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Cloning a Raspberry Pi
Cloning a Raspberry Pi

This will walk you through setting up a new Raspberry Pi by cloning an existing one to a blank SD card.

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Written by Kevin Benjamin
Updated over 9 months ago

Materials Needed

  1. Raspberry Pi with INDY software on it (referred to as “Source Pi”)

  2. New Raspberry Pi (referred to as “Destination Pi”)

  3. Blank Micro SD card 16GB or larger

  4. USB Micro SD Card adapter

  5. Ethernet network connection

  6. Access in INDY admin to the Pi with the INDY software installed

  7. Power cables for the Pis

Instructions

  1. Insert the microSD card into the USB card adapter, then plug that into the source Pi

  2. Connect the source pi to the internet and power on

  3. Navigate to “Remote Hardware” in INDY admin through the settings menu

  4. Select the appropriate Pi in the list of remote hardware. Then click the “Clone SDS” button at the bottom of the window

  5. Wait approximately 15 minutes for the card to be cloned to the blank SD card. If your MicroSD card adapter has an activity light wait until that stops flashing.

  6. Remove the USB microSD card adapter from the source pi and remove the microSD card

  7. Insert the newly created microSD card into the destination pi

  8. Connect the destination pi to the internet and power, then turn on. (you can optionally connect the video cable to HDMI 0 to a display to verify it booting into the OS)

  9. Refresh the unassigned hardware section of the remote hardware page in INDY admin

  10. The new Pi should show up here to be assigned to the location.

  11. Once the Pi has been assigned you can configure it to the proper hardware type and settings.

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