Command-line version of XBian-copier

[palswim]

From the other post, I can invoke the XBian-config utility's xbiancopy function:

Code:

xbian-config xbiancopy start source dest [label] [size]

source: Source partition - normally this is /dev/root (actually booted root), but can by used to copy others as well (btrfs only)
dest: Destination partition - like /dev/sda2 etc. if "dest" is prefixed with "file:", then file will be created
label: By default is "xbian-copy" used
size: (This makes sense only for destination as file.) By default, it is size of source partition, but sometimes, you have 16gb SD card, but 2gb used, so could be specified.

Examples:

Code:

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

Check status with:

Code:

xbian-config xbiancopy status

After I ran this, status immediately returned 0, and I don't know for which status I am looking, but I find it more effective to check the modification time on the file I'm creating:

Code:

ls -l /path/to/file.img

I know it has finished when the last modified time stops increasing.


This method is a start. But, I am wondering which commands this Xbian copier is using to accomplish the copy.