[arm-allstar] USB Backup

[Doug Crompton]

OK, as long as you check it. Unless you check a backup  you have no idea if
it works. That is an important thing that a lot of people leave off.

Personally I would not depend on it and I always pop the card and backup
that way. Also there is usually no real reason to backup a simple node that
you have made few changes to. The usb-backup.sh is a better choice it backs
up the key files that you would change. There is no real reason to backup
the entire image as it is probably quicker to just down load a new one, do
the updates and restore using usb-restore.


*73 Doug*

*WA3DSP*

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On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 9:21 PM, "Terry Bethlehem via arm-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> I use image-backup.sh often. It throws an error but I ignore it. Restoring
> the img with win32 prog works fine.
>
> On Nov 19, 2017 9:05 PM, Doug Crompton via arm-allstar <
> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>
> Dave,
>
> I had not tried the backup in quite awhile. I just tried usb-backup.sh and
> it did work. It gave me an error 2 though for some reason. I will have to
> look and see what that means. The tar file is over on the USB stick and
> shows up in the restore. It also looks and verifies intact. I am using a
> FAT32 formatted 32G USB stick with other data on it. So you don't need a
> clean USB stick.
>
> What were you seeing or what was not working?
>
> I do think we probably need to take the image backup off the distribution
> though. It was never a good idea to backup a live Linux system like that.
> Best to just shutdown and remove the card and backup using DD or
> win32diskimager.
>
>
> *73 Doug*
>
> *WA3DSP*
>
> *http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 8:42 PM, "David via arm-allstar" <
> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>
> > USB Backup: Just checking, does the current version support this still?
> > Having issues.
> > David
> >
> >
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