Creating a copy of the OSMC SDCard

rdk45 · 3 March 2026 11:12

I’ve searched the Community and the Web for ways to make a copy of the SDCard currently used for my OSMC RPi installation without a lot of success . I have avoided all of those links older the 5 years which all too often are not currently valid.

I’m left with one question: “Why is it so complicated to create a copy of my configured OSMC - OS SDCard?”, without having to use two computers (Windows and/or Pi’s) and being a Linux or Windows technical expert? My Debian RPi installation Desktop/GUI has an app which does this in 4 or so clicks.

Thanks…RDK

grahamh · 3 March 2026 11:30

Well it’s 7 years old but still works. Download this to your home directory on the Pi, attach an empty SD card (with a USB cardreader) and go sudo bash osmc-restore -f /

github.com/graham8/osmc-backup

osmc-restore

master

#! /bin/bash

# A script to restore backups to removable media. It will also format a USB stick or
# SD card suitable for OSMC and restore the system and boot partitions appropriately

# Copyright (c) Graham Horner, 2017-19. 
# Feel free to use and/or modify for any non-commercial purposes.
# No warranty as to fitness of purpose or suitability
# is given or should be inferred.

# Any comments or bug reports to discourse.osmc.tv.

VERSION='0.1.12' ## further check for vero and print version
#set -x

echo $(date) Restore version $VERSION

# check if this is being run as root
if (( $(/usr/bin/id -u) != 0 )); then
	echo Must be run as root!

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rdk45 · 3 March 2026 12:14

@grahamh Super, I’ll give it a try later today. Many thanks…RDK