On 15/04/2014 12:34 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > PaulNM wrote: >> On 04/13/2014 10:16 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> >> Specifically: usbDrive=/dev/sde1 >> >> You're not backing up and restoring usb drives, you're backing up and >> restoring a partition on usb drives. The partition table and bootloader >> aren't handled by your script. No bootloader=no booting. :) >> >> I'd suggest getting the whole device (/dev/sde) unless you're planning >> to restore to a drive with other partitions you want to preserve.
The other thing to realize is that you can have two different USB sticks, but they present differently to the OS and/or BIOS. For instance, I have a cheap 64GB Sandisk stick that /looks/ like a fixed drive and another 64GB Silicon Power [SP] stick that presents as removable (under Windows in this case). Consequently a backup tool provided by Toshiba to backup the Windows 8 installation only works on the SP drive. Both are overkill for storage, but I would have been happy to use the slower and otherwise less useful Sandisk device for the backup. I did a copy of the SP drive to the Sandisk one (using dd), it did boot okay, but it failed to do recovery when I tested it; the original backup on the SP stick works flawlessly. As an aside, the Windows backup is probably never going to be used, but I want it just in case. Already had Kali linux installed and I will be trying other distros until I settle on one, but I definitely won't be using Windows 8 on the machine. In AU we had an advert which said: "Oils Aint Oils Sol" ... -- we can say the same about USB sticks. Cheers A. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/538b38a0.9080...@affinityvision.com.au
