Hey folks,
A little background: this is my first pine64 device. I've flashed a few androids over the years, and long-time linux engineer.
My PBP arrived a couple weeks ago with Manjaro KDE and I've invested a bit of time getting it set up the way I like. Currently all I'm doing is tarring everything to a file on USB drive. But I really want to do an image backup. Idea being I could flash a new OS, and then restore my image of customized Manjaro if I don't like it. Or say I bork it bad and just want to revert to a known good state.
It's always best to backup a quiesced filesystem (preferably unmounted). I've done a little research here and on wiki and stuff and think I at least have a strategy. Please let me know what you think:
First, I need to choose a linux distro which I can boot from SDcard. Then insert a 64GB USB thumbdrive. Boot the SDcard image. finally dd the emmc to the USB. poweroff, eject media and boot back to normal. To restore, I do the above but dd the other way from USB to EMMC.
Is this a sound strategy or does it take me down a more aggravating path than one I'm not aware of, yet?
Is it better to boot from USB and dd to SD? (instead of the reverse as I described above)?
And where exactly does etcher come into play? Burning the OS to the SDcard?
Many thanks,
A little background: this is my first pine64 device. I've flashed a few androids over the years, and long-time linux engineer.
My PBP arrived a couple weeks ago with Manjaro KDE and I've invested a bit of time getting it set up the way I like. Currently all I'm doing is tarring everything to a file on USB drive. But I really want to do an image backup. Idea being I could flash a new OS, and then restore my image of customized Manjaro if I don't like it. Or say I bork it bad and just want to revert to a known good state.
It's always best to backup a quiesced filesystem (preferably unmounted). I've done a little research here and on wiki and stuff and think I at least have a strategy. Please let me know what you think:
First, I need to choose a linux distro which I can boot from SDcard. Then insert a 64GB USB thumbdrive. Boot the SDcard image. finally dd the emmc to the USB. poweroff, eject media and boot back to normal. To restore, I do the above but dd the other way from USB to EMMC.
Is this a sound strategy or does it take me down a more aggravating path than one I'm not aware of, yet?
Is it better to boot from USB and dd to SD? (instead of the reverse as I described above)?
And where exactly does etcher come into play? Burning the OS to the SDcard?
Many thanks,