Make an image of usb drive

[firenice03]

A little googling... and a find...

Usage would be something like

Code:

sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of=~/USB_image

where /dev/sdb is your usb drive as listed by sudo fdisk -l (maybe with df -h as well) and ~/USB_image is the image file where the copy will be made (a path where the image file will be created).

FYI '~' equates to your users /home folder


To restore the image to another USB drive just invert the process:

Code:

sudo dd if=~/USB_image of=/dev/sdb

will restore ~/USB_image to the device sdb. Just make sure that the new USB drive is as big or bigger than the original one.

I added additional comments... Make sure you are entering your USB/SDCard appropriately for the /dev/sdb paths
Also,  additional parameters may be required, I've not used dd, others may add input...

Found here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/318893/ho...-usb-stick