It will copy everything including the card's formatting information. Howerer, if you back up to a larger card, it will end up the same usable size as the original card. You have to use gparted or something similar to expand the new file system.
> On 09/07/2021 14:19 John <radio@...> wrote:
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> If I use an image maker like Balena Etcher to make an image from my Pi SDcard, will it copy everything on the card or only the operating system?
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> I make so many errors it would be nice not to go back to square one each time. I would like to have both the operating system and my files on a backuo SDcard.
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> John, W0GN
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