[arm-allstar] usb-backup.sh exit code 2

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Doug,

Thank you for your advice on backups.  I will pull the card and do the 
image copy as you suggest, and thanks for all your work putting a very 
nice All Star system on an RPi.

-Dave k6dvd


On 7/2/2017 9:24 PM, "Doug Crompton via arm-allstar" wrote:
> Dave,
>
>   At this point I cannot vouch for the USB backup routines in V1.5 - I have
> not used them in awhile and in fact there may very well be an issue. I will
> check. I really do not recommend the live backup anyway. It was something
> we toyed with way back. It is generally not recommended to backup a live
> Linux system. I would not want to depend on it.
>
> The best thing to do is get things basically the way you want them,
> shutdown normally and remove the SD card and copy using win32diskimager or
> dd to a file on your computer. You then have the option of just leaving it
> there or actually making a backup SD card. I suspect that you would want to
> make an SD card and leave it at the site taped to the Pi.
>
>
> *73 Doug*
>
> *WA3DSP*
>
> *http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 11:23 PM, "mail via arm-allstar" <
> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>
>> I have image V1.5rc2 running on an RPi3.  I added the echolink function
>> and have Supermon working and so it's time to backup the configuration.
>> When I run the usb-backup.sh script it sees the memory stick and starts the
>> backup, however it quickly says there is an error exit code 2.
>> I have tried two memory sticks, one 8GB and another 2GB.  Both formatted
>> first as NTFS and then exFAT with no luck.
>> What is this error and what can I do?  I will be placing the RPi at a
>> repeater site so having a separate memory that can receive a backup would
>> be great.
>> Thanks,
>> Dave k6dvd
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