[SOLVED] duplicate/clone an xbian installation

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I'm not the developer of this, but here's a copy of a PM from mk01,
i didn't test myself the size params, but should be what you want :

Quote:sudo xbian-config xbiancopy start source dest label size

where:
1- source is source partition - normally this is /dev/root (actually booted root), but can by used to copy others as well (btrfs only)
2- dest is destination partition - like /dev/sda2 etc. if "dest" is prefixed with "file:", then file will be created

not required:
3- label - by default is "xbian-copy" used
4- size - this makes sense only for destination as file. by default it is size of source partition. but sometimes you have 16gb sdcard, but 2gb used, so could be specified.

exemple:
xbian-config xbiancopy start /dev/root /dev/sda1
xbian-config xbiancopy start /dev/root file:/mnt/path/to/file.img

if file is used, btrfs-auto-snapshot script is copying also /boot and adapts /boot/cmdline.txt so direct flash of that img is possible.

ps : will work only on beta2 test
and command will return directly,
to know the status progress you can call
sudo xbian-config xbiancopy status (if i remember return 0 when finished)