Thread: [Announce] BackupMenu - OS backup & restore | New version - Jul 9th(v1.1)
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RobbieThe1st is offline RobbieThe1st
2011-01-30 , 09:20
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#574
Originally Posted by debernardis View Post
I thought we could backup the rootfs without the need of rebooting and acting inside a bootmenu item by doing something like:
Code:
cd /home/user
mkdir nand
mount --bind / ./nand
and applying mkfs.ubifs to /home/user/nand
NO.
There's a very good reason not to do this - Trying to copy files that may change on-the-fly is bad practice; in addition, the files in /dev/ are wrong - At boot time, there are a few special files in there, and udev mounts over top of it, so you can't find the required files.
I ran into this quite a while ago; it took a bit of help to figure out -why- it wouldn't work right.
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V0.62-1 has been uploaded, with the above patches.
If it still doesn't work, let me know. Let me know any tests, what works, what doesn't. Please!
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