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Move SD card to new pi

Posted: Thursday 28 May 2020 21:04
by Rolandet
I've recently bought the Pi4, on which I want to run domoticz

However, on my Pi3, everything is running fine, including Atag One, which is quite hard to get working properly

So, I was thinking: can I make a clone of my sdcard, and move on from there?
Or better yet: just put the sdcard of the pi3 in the pi4? (probably add SSH file to enable ssh once again)

I can't overlook the consequences for Domoticz (besides from altering some scripts where the IP of my device is hard coded)

Perhaps anyone has experience doing this?

tnx

Re: Move SD card to new pi

Posted: Thursday 28 May 2020 22:25
by Bigted
Which version of Raspbian is running on your Pi 3 as a Pi 4 needs Buster

If it has Buster on it then it should be able to moved to the Pi 4

If it is older than Buster I'd make a backup copy of the SD card and upgrade the backup card to Buster while running on the Pi 3. Don't do anything without a working copy of your SD card and only use the backup card when upgrading or swapping

As for the IP address, I'd make sure that the Pi 4 kept the IP address of the old Pi

Re: Move SD card to new pi

Posted: Thursday 28 May 2020 22:35
by Rolandet
Bigted wrote: Thursday 28 May 2020 22:25 Which version of Raspbian is running on your Pi 3 as a Pi 4 needs Buster

If it has Buster on it then it should be able to moved to the Pi 4

If it is older than Buster I'd make a backup copy of the SD card and upgrade the backup card to Buster while running on the Pi 3. Don't do anything without a working copy of your SD card and only use the backup card when upgrading or swapping

As for the IP address, I'd make sure that the Pi 4 kept the IP address of the old Pi
The pi3 has Buster running too (upgraded a little while ago)

So, I'll make a backup copy of the SD, and then try to run it on the Pi4

tnx
(ill update the result)