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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] making a backup of a sd card for insertion into a new ts-7500
From: Don Tucker <>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 15:38:31 -0600
It's been a while since I've done this, but I remember having to:

1. get rid of any pre-existing partitions on the new SD card with
'fdisk' before doing the dd
2. specify the block size during the dd, and
3. to 'sync' the file systems after the dd had completed.

Don

> I tried taking the 2gb sd card out of the ts-7500, putting in in a
card reader
> on a desktop lubuntu machine, and then backing up the image using the dd
> command. I then put a different 2gb sd card into the card reader and
used the
> dd command to write that image onto the card but the boot fails.
>
>



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