A few thoughts
Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2014 8:42 pm
First of all, I love this program. This is THE WAY TO DO IT as far as I'm concerned for backing up/restoring images for Raspberry Pi (which uses SD and micro SD cards for its OS). Most tutorials and info say to use Win32DiskImager, but that is NOT the way to do it. For a number of reasons that I've already written about: http://www.drewkeller.com/content/readi ... spberry-pi
After using USB Image Tool for a few months, here are some of my thoughts.
I'm forgetting something, I'm sure.
After using USB Image Tool for a few months, here are some of my thoughts.
- Would be cool to support drag'n'drop. Drop an image file on a disk icon and ask for confirmation before restoring.
- Remember which image type was previously selected (between sessions). Or have an option to select the preferred format (.img or .img.gz).
- My raspberry pi only uses around 3.5-4.5 GB of an 8GB card. Only the first 5GB is partitioned. It would save a bunch of time if USBIT could tell if it's reached the end of the used space and then stop (restoring and/or backing up).
- I selected the option to "truncate oversize images" (awesome feature, by the way), because not all 8GB flash cards are exactly the same available capacity. However, when restoring these, for some reason, the percentage restored goes up to 100% and then keeps going, maybe up to 200% (I'm always doing something else instead of watching such things, but it definitely goes past 150%).
I'm forgetting something, I'm sure.