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

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Subject: RE: [ts-7000] Re: How to clone contents of flash memory
From: pierrot lafouine <>
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 11:09:10 -0500


> so I cannot simply take it out and put it into a card reader.
Why not ?
This is exactly what I'm doing for all TS-7300 I have.  I upgrade 1 card with apt-get etc... then dd it an copy this image to all FLASH I have.  I'm not sure I understand your problem.  Do you have access to a Linux PC with SD card reader ?

Pierre

Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons
(Popular Mechanics, 1949)






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Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 02:45:08 +0000
Subject: [ts-7000] Re: How to clone contents of flash memory

 
Hi Pierre,
there is a slight misunderstanding: I've used the onboard flash memory, all is installed on these 512Mb, so I cannot simply take it out and put it into a card reader.
I guess I first have to make a dd from the good onboard flash to an SD card. But is this possible during I have booted from this onboard flash and the file-system is mounted???
So, probably I have to boot from any SD-Card, by changing JP1, than make the dd from the onboard flash (how to access it than???) to ... next problem, to what? There is no empty destination... maybe to an USB-stick connected to an USB port... so you see, it is totally unclear for me...

Thanks for any help
Achim

--- In m("yahoogroups.com","ts-7000");">.com, pierrot lafouine <pierrotlafouine@...> wrote:
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> Take the FLASh out of the TS and put it on a SD card reader on your Linux PC.
> In console write commands :
> dmesg | tail
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> You should see someting like this :
> [188307.934633] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
> [188307.935617] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] 3842048 512-byte hardware sectors (1967 MB)
> [188307.936240] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
> [188307.936242] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 4b 00 00 08
> [188307.936244] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
> [188307.936247] sdb: sdb1 sdb2
> In this specific case SD card reader is mounted on sdb (see [sdb])
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> Then copy your flash to a file :
> dd if=/dev/sdb of=/yourpath/yourfilename.dd
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> To copy yourfilename.dd to new flash (must be same size):
> dd if=/yourpath/yourfilename.dd of=/dev/sdb
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> Just be careful with syntax and with dd commands, you can make big mess.
> Cheers!
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> Pierre
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> Subject: [ts-7000] Re: How to clone contents of flash memory
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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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