Is it possible to export .img file from virtual machine?

General Discussion
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Like described in the title, I am trying to find a way to export the whole file system from the virtaul machine(VMware or virtualbox) to a .img file, which can be used to write into a SD card for a real raspberry pi. I want to do this because the virtual machines have the very convinient snapshot backup feature which the real Pi don’t have. If anyone can give me some advices?

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Hi,

no, different processor architecture.

VM is a i386 64bit. RPi are ARMv6 / ARMv7 processor architecture and have different specific instruction set.

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Hi k-plan,
Thanks for your reply. So it there any better way to make incremental backup for RPi without Cope and Write the whole SD card image everytime?
Best,
dragon

4

Hi,

Is this something you are looking for?

DietPi-Backup

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k-plan

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Thanks, I will try it.

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I have tried this DietPi-Backup. So dose it maintain only one latest version of backup rather than all the history backups?

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So dose it maintain only one latest version of backup rather than all the history backups?

Maintains the most recent backup only. Uses Rsync to create a incremental backup.