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so one of the things not really covered here is how to deal with SD card failure. Any application that requires any level of writing to disk will almost certai

so one of the things not really covered here is how to deal with SD card failure. Any application that requires any level of writing to disk will almost certainly die in short order. I have a boatload of Pis, doing a bunch of things, and one of the annoying things is having cards die on me. Everything is in ansible, so its not that much effort to rebuild. However having any important data living on a pi's SD card is a nono

mellow-lake-day 8y ago
> so one of the things not really covered here is how to deal with SD card failure. I recommend a program like win32diskimager (https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/) so you can make images of your SD cards in their working state and if they get corrupted quickly get them back to working order. > However having any important data living on a pi's SD card is a nono That is why I wrote a script using the Fabric Python module to log in to my rpi3 and download important files. Ideally the script would run automatically every day but I haven't quite gotten there yet.