Back up a drive

Rip copies a USB stick or SD card, sector by sector, into an .img file. The stick is only read. Yoink shows speed and time remaining, and writes a SHA-256 of the file when it finishes.

How to use it

1. Plug in the stick and select it.
2. Choose Back up this drive.
3. Pick where the .img file should go. Don't pick the stick itself.
4. Wait until Yoink says the copy is done. You can keep using the PC.

The image is a plain file. You can archive it, or boot it in Proxmox, Hyper-V or VMware.

From the command line: yoink rip E: -o installer.img on Windows, or sudo yoink rip disk4 -o installer.img on macOS.

Troubleshooting

• The stick isn't in the list: My drive isn't listed.
• Yoink refuses the disk: it is not a removable USB or SD drive, or it is the system disk.

Related

• Wipe a drive
• Getting started