#15 DRAWS Backups

We sure do get a lot of updates. Wouldn't it be nice to have a failsafe/fallback in the event of some update problem? Here I go into 2 ways to backup your DRAWS workstation.

After we're all done, if you ever run into a problem, just put your backup SD card in and reboot!

Commands:

# Check what is mounted and some data about it
df -h

# Check what drives are attached, find the one that is NOT mmcblk
lsblk

# Create your target partitions
parted /dev/{Your device name}
mklabel msdos
mkpart primary fat16 1MiB 64MB
mkpart primary ext4 64MB -1s
print
quit

# Format your new partitions
mkfs.vfat /dev/{Your device name}1
mkfs.ext4 -j /dev/{Your device name}2

# Create mount points and mount
mkdir /tmp/drawsbk
mount /dev/{Your device name}2 /tmp/drawsbk
mkdir /tmp/drawsbk/boot
mount /dev/{Your Device name}1 /tmp/drawsbk/boot

# now let's see it:
df -h

## copy all files to the new SD card
cd /
rsync -av --exclude /tmp --one-file-system / /boot /tmp/drawsbk

# Are we close?
df -h

# Update your boot parameters for a happy boot
ls -al /dev/disk/by-partuuid

# Note which UUIDs belong to which and
{edit} /tmp/drawsbk/etc/fstab
{edit} /tmp/drawsbk/boot/cmdline.txt #be sure to use partition #2 here

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