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#11
Originally Posted by D'ohboy View Post
Um, wouldn't cloning to mmc and doing something like
Code:
sudo dd if=/dev/sdb | bzip2 >n800.image.bz2
to the resulting memory card using a linux box create a single backup file? I mean cloning after you get everything set up the way you want.
I use a linux live CD based cloning (clonezilla) program on all notebooks and desktops/towers (work and home) regardless of OS and it has rewritten perfect images flawlessly. My background is not in coding, more electronics and mechanical - this said, I am able to hack the command line, just not real familiar with. Seems I recall dd being the linux embedded imageing, would the above formula rewrite the image to the tablet? Or isn't there some reason the flasher program is used due to the way the hardware actually stores AND interacts with the code? I tend to view these a bit differently when I haven't built up from parts, what my OS is going on/in.

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I run my OS off the SD card as described in the thread "Cloning OS to SD/MMC Card: Simplified instructions" then I take the SD card put it in a reader and make a copy of it. While I haven't had to use it something like
Code:
sudo bunzip2 -c n800.image.bz2 >/dev/sdb
should restore it on the card. This is a modification from here.
 
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