Question Is there a simple way to back up EmuMMC?

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    My emunand is on a 30GB FAT32 partition of my microSD card. When I upgraded to a larger card last week, it was quite annoying to transfer the emunand partition. I ended up using DiskGenius (Windows) to clone it sector by sector directly from the old to the new card. However, I would like to have a simple way to create a backup of the emunand in case anything ever goes wrong. I am surprised that Hekate has no emunand backup feature...
    So what is an easy way to create an image of my emunand? I don't want an image of the entire SD card, which is what for instance Win32DiskImager does.
     
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    If you "brick" your emunand, you create easily a new one. Thats all.
     
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    But doesn't the emunand contain the saves/list of installed games?
     
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    If you only care about the saves, you can backup them with CheckPoint. That's how I do it. Before I update the emuMMC firmware, I create a backup of all my saves.
     
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    So if the emunand gets corrupted for some reason and you have no backup, then you need to reinstall every game?
     
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    Yes. But maybe if you install to the sd card, you don't have to reinstall every game.
     
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    How is your emunand on your sd card? A hidden partition? Split files? If the latter, just back them up onto your computer. If it's a partition that's unreadable in Windows, use diskgenius and see if you can create an img of it or just back it up.
     
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    It's a hidden partition. DiskGenius thinks it's empty and creates a tiny file that is NOT a sector by sector image (I tried this last week).
     
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