Backup and UPS recommendations

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A very short term power cut corrupted my SD card.

I formatted the card and installed a copy of the card, but could not SSH in to the pi. IPscan24 reported I had two pi’s on different ips, neither of which was accessible.

I changed the card for a complete new install on another card and that worked fine. Presumably something went wrong when I read the card back in to the PC using Win32DiskImager.

So…

Is there a better way to copy an SD card?
Any recommendations for a ups system that can take over during short term outages.

Many thanks

Phill

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There’s a number of good suggestions in this thread - ads-b-flight-tracking-f21/dead-and-or-dying-sd-card-t28516.html

I run a nightly script that creates a full image of the SD card.

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I posted my UPS setup a while back in another thread:
http://discussions.flightaware.com/post169786.html#p169786

It has worked flawlessly. No downtime since I put it in 144 days ago, despite several power outages.

Andy

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Many thanks for the replies, chaps.

I’ll have to get something sorted out if SWMBO keeps trying to overload the supply, :imp: :imp: :imp: :imp: :imp:

Phill