How to back up your qtmoko properly?

Jose Luis Perez Diez jluis at escomposlinux.org
Wed Jun 27 10:28:07 CEST 2012


El Wednesday 27 June 2012 08:09:37 robin va escriure:
> 
> hi,
> 
> thanks. that did the trick. I added some info to the qtmoko manual if anyone
> should also need this in the future.
> 
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/QtMoko#Data_Safety_.2F_Boot_Errors
> 
> Does anyone know what bytesize one can transfer savely through the usb1?

I had to read the wiki to understand your question. You could use any sane block size (it only afects the read speed). Also I would write the transfer as :

 ssh -t root at 192.168.0.202 dd  if=/dev/mmcblk0p1 bs=4096 > ~/partition.bs4096

is simpler and works with busy box dd
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