Hacking Question Easiest way to clone SD Card?

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Hey guys, my 400GB (exFAT) SD Card gets corrupted fairly regularly and reinstalling everything literally takes days. To save me having to go through this process again, what's the easiest way I can clone my SD card in a way that I can just restore it if it becomes corrupt and it'll still be read by my Switch (SX OS)? Cheers
 

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Hey guys, my 400GB (exFAT) SD Card gets corrupted fairly regularly and reinstalling everything literally takes days. To save me having to go through this process again, what's the easiest way I can clone my SD card in a way that I can just restore it if it becomes corrupt and it'll still be read by my Switch (SX OS)? Cheers
http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm
use this to format to fat32

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then after copy the files
 

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Hey guys, my 400GB (exFAT) SD Card gets corrupted fairly regularly
Switch to FAT32
To save me having to go through this process again, what's the easiest way
Read above
what's the easiest way I can clone my SD card in a way that I can just restore it if it becomes corrupt and it'll still be read by my Switch
If you won't switch to FAT32 (even after SD getting corrupted "fairly regularly") I guess just make a copy of your SD to your PC every ___ minutes/hours/days?
I would solve the problem entirely instead of pissing around making "copies" of your SD card lol
 

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Switch to FAT32

Read above

If you won't switch to FAT32 (even after SD getting corrupted "fairly regularly") I guess just make a copy of your SD to your PC every ___ minutes/hours/days?
I would solve the problem entirely instead of pissing around making "copies" of your SD card lol

Cheers, but I tried just copying and pasting the contents previously but was forced (by the Switch OS) to format it so assumed I'd have to clone it for it to be accepted?
 

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I have yet to see my 400GB ExFat corrupt, but i only install games onto the internal system memory. The sd card has my .xci files on it plus any mods that I'm using layeredFS or patched data.arks for.
 

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