DDBR method to backup and restore

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cszhy
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DDBR method to backup and restore

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Hi all:

I know people use ddbr method to backup and restore their linux device.
they make a bootable USB from Armbian image . then Use the command "ddbr"  to make a backup file of the internal EMMC. 
The backup file will be in /ddbr of the USB device
when need to Restore that image file you just run the command "ddbr" then choose "r"
I think maybe it can also use on joggler to make share much easier

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Re: DDBR method to backup and restore

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Great Idea.

I currently utilize Armbian on the Pine64 computer to run Home Assistant.

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Welcome to Armbian 22.05.3 Focal with Linux 5.15.48-sunxi64

System load:   40%           	Up time:       9 days 6:10	
Memory usage:  43% of 1.94G  	Zram usage:    16% of 0.97G  	IP:	       172.17.0.1 192.168.245.140 172.30.32.1
CPU temp:      34°C           	Usage of /:    34% of 29G    	

Last login: Thu Aug 25 20:16:47 2022 from 192.168.242.130
and for a while was making little TV boxes Armbian servers and they ran KODI for a bit.
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OpenPeak Voip Telephony / Zigbee tabletops hardware modded with Seabios / RTC / Ethernet ROM edits / SSD drives running XPe for automation screens

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Re: DDBR method to backup and restore

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pete wrote:Great Idea.

I currently utilize Armbian on the Pine64 computer to run Home Assistant.

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| |_) | | '_ \ / _ \ '_ \| || |_ 
|  __/| | | | |  __/ (_) |__   _|
|_|   |_|_| |_|\___|\___/   |_|  
                                 
Welcome to Armbian 22.05.3 Focal with Linux 5.15.48-sunxi64

System load:   40%           	Up time:       9 days 6:10	
Memory usage:  43% of 1.94G  	Zram usage:    16% of 0.97G  	IP:	       172.17.0.1 192.168.245.140 172.30.32.1
CPU temp:      34°C           	Usage of /:    34% of 29G    	

Last login: Thu Aug 25 20:16:47 2022 from 192.168.242.130
and for a while was making little TV boxes Armbian servers and they ran KODI for a bit.
maybe you can have a try.
the only problem is the default backup folder is in the emmc. I think that space of joggler might not big enough.

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Re: DDBR method to backup and restore

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Thinking about this and years ago before writing to my test Openpeak devices I would just boot up with a Ubuntu USB stick and do a DD of the emmc to the USB stick or something similiar.

I did most of this with Verizon (openpeak) telco Openpeak devices. Not sure if these images are posted here. Its been so long ago.

That said the base EFI bios (1 Mb) boot files are posted here. That is where I am using the Avaya boot bios EFI stuff.

That and most of my old Jogglers, Openpeak devices have eMMCs that are starting to fail so I do not utilize them anymore much. Rather use the small 16Gb SSD drives which are ZIF connected.

Here also using first generation Intel based micro with a 64Gb eMMC. It came with Windows 8-10 and I wiped that out and installed Linux on it years ago. Think that it is a BeeLink Intel Micro PC. Personally like using Intel CPUs over Arm based CPUs but that is me.

Beelink specs are:

CPU

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Model:               76
Model name:          Intel(R) Atom(TM) x5-Z8350  CPU @ 1.44GHz
Stepping:            4
CPU MHz:             1908.598
CPU max MHz:         1920.0000
RAM:

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free -h
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           3.7G        660M        281M         23M        2.8G        2.8G
Swap:          1.6G         19M        1.6G
Emmc:

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df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev            1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /dev
tmpfs           384M  1.6M  382M   1% /run
/dev/mmcblk0p5   57G   34G   21G  62% /
tmpfs           1.9G  8.0K  1.9G   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs           1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/loop0      114M  114M     0 100% /snap/core/13308
/dev/loop2       56M   56M     0 100% /snap/core18/2409
/dev/loop5      1.2M  1.2M     0 100% /snap/mosquitto/704
/dev/loop6      114M  114M     0 100% /snap/core/13425
/dev/loop4       56M   56M     0 100% /snap/core18/2538
/dev/loop3      130M  130M     0 100% /snap/nutty/10
/dev/mmcblk0p1   96M   71M   26M  74% /boot/efi
tmpfs           384M   12K  384M   1% /run/user/1000
/dev/loop7      1.2M  1.2M     0 100% /snap/mosquitto/776
tmpfs           384M     0  384M   0% /run/user/0
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O2 Jogglers running EFI Ubuntu / Squeezeplayer
OpenPeak Voip Telephony / Zigbee tabletops hardware modded with Seabios / RTC / Ethernet ROM edits / SSD drives running XPe for automation screens

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