After slapping myself a few times, that's what I ended up doing. dd'ing
would be faster, but I was not comfortable that I'd get the options right.

Next experiment...

On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 2:35 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote:

> Or even rsync to sdcard . . .
>
> On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Robert Nelson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Oct 31, 2015 2:41 PM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi Arsi, that was my backup plan, but that's a *little* bit less
>> efficient than a direct write to the SD card on the BBB.
>> >
>> > I found Robert's 2 year old eMMC-to-SD script on GitHub; wonder if
>> that's still up-to-date. Guess I'll try!
>>
>> It is, but it's a little risky on old rootfs, specially prior to Sep
>> 2014.. As we made major changes to the location of the boot loader and
>> kernel location on disk, that summer. (Since that major change we haven't
>> broken it.)
>>
>> I'd recommend, NFS/rsync backup the boot/root.. Install the 2015-07-28
>> image, double check the new kernel works for you. (3.8.13 based in that
>> image).  Then rsync back just the 'root'.. Double check it still works with
>> your changes.. Then you can use the built in emmc to SD backup across.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
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