trouble making bootable backup from sync-root about dcs-tools

[ceremcem]

Hi Nigel,

Making backups from sync root is a completely different process from making a bootable backup. So, considering the title, make-backup is unrelated with this process.

What do you get when you use produce-bootable-disk? For usage help, you can run it without an argument or with --help argument.

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[motioncircus]

Oh, ok.. thanks for your swift reply mate!

when I run '''produce-bootable-disk''' I get

'''bash: produce-bootable-disk: command not found'''

[ceremcem]

Please try ./dcs-tools/produce-bootable-disk as it resides under the dcs-tools directory.

(Note: It's triple backticks: ```, not triple single quote.)

[motioncircus]

Ok I see the command now...
when I run it it asks for a --device to format and create bootable disk
Do I need to have a second, ready to write, SD card ready, perhaps in a USB card reader?
I expected this command to produce an image file that I could copy to my windows box and burn to SD

[ceremcem]

Nope, this command directly formats the SD card and transfers the root file system to the newly created partitions. So obviously you need a different SD card than your current Raspberry has.

A BIG WARNING

You may destroy all of your data, and you may never be able to reach them again, ever. So make your backups properly, do not involve any valuable files in this process until you learn how to use these kind of tools

END OF BIG WARNING

[motioncircus]

Ok, So obviously I have to have two SD cards in the machine at the time.. the one running the OS, where then dcs-tools directory and the sync root is AND another SD card to format and write the backed up files to. N

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