[arm-allstar] Backing up files on bad SD Card

[Mike Sullivan]

Talk about perfect timing then, eh? Lol. I just wanted to make sure there
wasn't a folder I was missing. I don't think this card is bad necessarily,
but something was corrupted of course since it failed to fully boot up. I
need to get in the habit of doing regular backups of all the nodes I
manage.

Mike

On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 5:05 PM "Doug Crompton via ARM-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> Mike,
>
>  Funny you should ask this today as I just got done doing that! I was
> fooling around on an active node and it fail to boot .
>
> You need to, as you said, mount it so you can read it on another system. I
> exclusively use Linux here so it just mounts right up on a card reader
> plugged into usb. If your windows method works that's great. You need the
> /etc/asterisk directory which will include the local directory and
> /srv/http which will include supermon. Also the /etc directory and any
> place else you  may have saved something. I copied these backups onto the
> new image mounted in Ubuntu. Then when it comes up the node should be
> working. You should run firsttime.sh and do an update and make sure things
> are set correctly there but don't run the node-config as that would
> overwrite your old data. Otherwise you should be back online. There is a
> backup and restore script you can run but it does not take that much time
> to do it manually either. If you do run that script you need to configure
> the file that specifies what files/directories to backup.
>
> *73 Doug, WA3DSP*
> *http://wa3dsp.org <http://wa3dsp.org>*
>
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 4:40 PM "Mike Sullivan via ARM-allstar" <
> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>
> > While working on a new node, the SD card I had in it was corrupted (This
> > node has been sitting for a while since I haven't had a chance to install
> > it) and the system won't boot up completely. I can load it up in Windows
> > and using Ext2fsd to mount it, I can pull off the files that I need for
> > configurations. I pulled the entire /etc/asterisk folder, and the entire
> > /srv/http folder. I wanted to see if there were any other files I could
> > pull before I try to rebuild the system. I really don't want to re-do the
> > entire configuration if I don't have to..
> >
> > Mike
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