How to backup ubuntu focal image to udsik on ROCK 5B?

Peter.Wang · June 29, 2023, 10:26am

This is a issue from one custom,now I share the guild here

Env:

ROCK 5B
OS :
https://github.com/radxa/debos-radxa/releases/download/20230201-0944/rock-5b-ubuntu-focal-server-arm64-20230201-1200-gpt.img.xz
EMMC 16G
OS’s size 9GB

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How to backup

step1:
download the script

github.com

akgnah/rockpi-toolkit/blob/master/rockpi-backup.sh

#!/bin/bash
set -e
AUTHOR="Akgnah <1024@setq.me>"
VERSION="0.15.0"
SCRIPT_NAME=$(basename $0)
BOOT_MOUNT=$(mktemp -d)
ROOT_MOUNT=$(mktemp -d)
DEVICE=/dev/$(mount | sed -n 's|^/dev/\(.*\) on / .*|\1|p' | cut -b 1-7)


check_root() {
  if [ $(id -u) != 0 ]; then
    echo -e "${SCRIPT_NAME} needs to be run as root.\n"
    exit 1
  fi
}


get_option() {
  exclude=""

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step2:
prepare a udisk with ntfs format, insert the udisk to rock5b and mount

sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/xxx /media/path

Maybe you will encounter the system can’t mount ntfs udisk issue, you can do as below
sudo apt-get remove ntfsprogs && sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g

step3:
sudo ./path/rockpi-backup.sh -m rk356x -o /media/path/backup.img

step4:
get the backup image and re-flash to other emmc / sdcard / …