[Qgis-user] Copy a raster

[john.polo]

Tim Sutton wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 9:17 PM, john.polo <jpolo at mail.usf.edu> wrote:
>>     
>>> QGIS Users,
>>>
>>> New QGIS user here, as well as a novice at GIS, with what is probably a
>>> basic question. If I want to copy a raster (.tif), should I just Cntl-C the
>>> file in the folder and paste and rename the copied file back into the
>>> folder? In ArcGIS I'd export the data and make all the copies I want. ...
> First ensure the 'GdalTools' plugin is enabled in your copy of QGIS
> (Plugins Menu -> Manage Plugins -> Tick Gdal Tools).
>
> Then to copy a raster do: Raster Menu -> Conversion -> Translate
>
> From the translate dialog, you can output can secify various output
> options, including the desired format and then write the new dataset
> out to disk.
>
>
> Hope that helps!
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>   
Tim, thanks for the reply. Chances are I'll be posting with questions 
about GDAL before long as well. :)

John