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[ts-7000] Re: How to clone contents of flash memory

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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: How to clone contents of flash memory
From: "naturalwatt" <>
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:46:05 -0000
One good way:

* Set up an export for NFS from your Linux PC.
* Mount that directory on the TS7800
* dd the root filesystem to a file on the NFS directory. This will take a long 
time and create a single large file.

You will need to create a bootable NFS mount, as you can't boot from a 
filesystem on the new TS8700 and overwrite that same filesystem - horrible 
things will happen.  I think.

* Create another directory on the Linux PC and NFS export that.
* Mount in on the TS7800
* Copy evrything from the old filesystem to this new directory. 

On each new TS7800:
* Boot it from your NFS filesystem
* mount the directory containing the dd image.
* copy the dd image onto the NAND Flash filesystem, which is NOT the NFS 
filesystem!

I am afraid I haven;t given you explicit commands for each step.

Martin

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> Subject: [ts-7000] Re: How to clone contents of flash memory
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>       Ok, this posting appeared a long time ago, but it looks like nobody 
> answered it so far.
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> I have the same problem: One TS-7800 was set up with a lot of effort, and now 
> I want to copy the whole flash memory to ten more TS-7800's as simple and 
> less error prone as possible.
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> Maybe via the SD-card or an USB-stick or even via SSH, I don't care, but what 
> is the way to create several clones of one embeddedARM?
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> Thanks a lot
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>   Achim
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> --- In  Janne Mäntyharju <janne.mantyharju@> wrote:
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> > Hi!
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> > Is it possible to make image of whole flash memory contents using
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> > redboot (kernel + root image)? How to write image back to new device?
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> > I have one prototype of device using TS-7250 ready and I'm searching for
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> > easiest way to clone contents of it.
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> > Thanks for reply!
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