[SOLVED] duplicate/clone an xbian installation

[mk01]

(29th May, 2013 07:10 PM)effemmeffe Wrote:  Then I stumbled in this thread and now I have one doubt: is my backup working or I have to change it?

I was already explaining what is happening.

You can be lucky, if your RPI is idle and fs caches flushed.
dd created image of rw mounted / filesystem will never be atomic. It's not like a picture taken with a camera.

But you can always check how consistent is the img. Split the backup.img into two files (partition1 and partition2 - you can do it again with dd, just check with fdisk or sfdisk block sizes of p1 and p2).

then mount the files through loop devices (losetup /dev/loopX [filename]). this /dev/loopX you can mount as regular block device.

run ext fsck and you will see if is ok or not.

mk