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billw2 / rpi-clone

A shell script to clone a booted disk.
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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USB Boot and USB Clone - Indeterminate Boot Device - Use SED on cmdline.txt? #106

Open eddiem5 opened 3 years ago

eddiem5 commented 3 years ago

Hello,

Love rpi-clone - Thank you..

I have a PI doing USB boot and another USB drive for a clone backup.

The problem is when the system is rebooted, it is indeterminate which device gets the boot...

I was hoping the -l flag from rpi-clone would do the trick but it only works for SD cards...

Any ideas or help would be great..

robustini commented 3 years ago

Same problem here, it is due to the bootloader being able to start from USB. I advise you to use version 1.71, never wrong, this new V2 at least here has only problems.

robustini commented 3 years ago

Unzip to /usr/local/sbin, then "sudo chmod +x rpi-clone" and use it, end of problems. First full backup:

sudo rpi-clone sda -f

Then progressive backup with:

sudo rpi-clone sda

rpi-clone.zip

framps commented 3 years ago

@robustini That's a very old version 1.7.1 of rpi-clone. Current version is 2.0.22. Would be great if you create an PR on 2.0.22.

robustini commented 3 years ago

@robustini That's a very old version 1.7.1 of rpi-clone. Current version is 2.0.22. Would be great if you create an PR on 2.0.22.

I know it's old, but at least this one almost always works! The result with V2.0.22:

immagine

Sda is not the boot disk here, damn! :-) V2.0.22 should be debugged better.

framps commented 3 years ago

I know it's old, but at least this one almost always works! The result with V2.0.22:

It's great you provided a workaround for this issue :+1: I thought you created some fix in 1.7.1 and will be able to roll in this fix into the current version.