On Saturday 17 June 2017 12:27:08 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 17 June 2017 11:12:06 Alan Corey wrote: > > I like parted or the gui version gparted, but I also have fdisk and > > sfdisk. There's a live CD of gparted which can probably also be > > written to a USB stick or a small SD card in a reader. Having it on > > an independent device means you can use it on about anything, from a > > new hard drive to an SD card. Most of my old favorites won't deal > > with drives as big as 1 TB so I had to find something new. > > > > https://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/ > > > > Parted (not gui) looks like this: > > > > hp# parted > > GNU Parted 3.2 > > Using /dev/sda > > Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. > > (parted) print > > Model: ATA ST1000LM024 HN-M (scsi) > > Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB > > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B > > Partition Table: msdos > > Disk Flags: > > > > Number Start End Size Type File system Flags > > 1 1049kB 210GB 210GB primary ntfs > > 2 210GB 367GB 157GB primary ext4 > > 3 367GB 1000GB 633GB extended > > 5 367GB 401GB 33.6GB logical linux-swap(v1) > > 6 402GB 552GB 150GB logical ext2 > > > > (parted) quit > > I followed the instructions from the previous post, using fdisk, set > it to b wrote it, then did the mkfs.vfat to format it. > > Rebooted the pi, /dev/sda1 was mounted as /media/pi, and the ext4 > partition /dev/sda3 was mounted to /media/pi/_1. > > But I ran into an rsync problem when I wanted to --exclude=/boot, it > only sent 49 bytes the first time, and only 40 bytes on try two. So > I removed the --exclude, and its now copying / to /media/pi/_1/ at a > pretty decent speed for a pi with its usb2 speed limit to anything. > > Once this has finished, I have a reader ready to plug in, with an even > faster 32Gb sd in it and I make probably the 20th attempt to use > piclone to make a backup sd card as I and another coder have about 6 > weeks worth of work we do not want to lose if this sd card goes tits > down. The kernel being used for the previous tries had very short > uptimes, and piclone never got to the finish line. > > Amanda has backed it up, so I have that as a last resort, but I want > at least 2 bare metal backups to protect the ground breaking work of > putting a pi to work running heavy metal via LinuxCNC in real time. > > Oh fudge, rsync is in a recursive loop. Damn.
I solved that by copying the amanda excludes file to an rsync-excludes file, then deleted the . in front of the amanda version of the string. Seems to have worked. Now to go see if I can make piclone work on this kernel. Thanks all, for the hand holding, its appreciated. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
