Wally, dude, what are you talking about ? You put the sdcard into a plastic case, drop the whole thing into an overnight UPS folder, and be done with it. $10 versus spending a monthly fee for something you probably don't use all that often.
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 5:50 PM, Wally Bkg <[email protected]> wrote: > The downside of this is your 4GB Emmc image will be a 4GB file. If you > have a "real" web or ftp server its not much of a a problem, but if you > don't it can be a hassle, although I've had good results with large fie > transfers using Microsoft's "free" One Drive service, although I'd signed > up for it long enough ago that I got 15GB storage, new accounts get less. > Robert's 4GB images with xzcat usually come in under a GB and the > 2016-04-03 images expands to about 3GB when expanded and written to an SD > card. > > If your remote is a Windows host, life is more complicated, in any case. > > > > On Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 5:20:15 PM UTC-5, William Hermans wrote: >> >> Unless you're already familiar with bmaptool, dd is probably the best, >> and easiest method to back up the whole sdcard byte for byte. simply place >> the sdcard in any Linux system that is not running off the sdcard live, and >> run >> >> # dd if=/path/to/sdcard of=/path/to/save_file.ext >> >> Technically the file it's saved as does not even need an extension, but >> it makes it clearer as to what the file is. Also, the Linux system used to >> make the backup can be made from the beaglebone too, but it can not be >> running live off the sdcard at the time. Additionally "#" indicates this >> must be run as root, but does not necessarily mean you have to be logged in >> as root. You can also use sudo . . . >> >> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Wally Bkg <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I think bmaptools will be the most efficient way in terms of the file >>> you distribute. But I'm not sure if the bmaptools are available for >>> Windows systems >>> >>> >>> https://source.tizen.org/documentation/reference/bmaptool/usage/bmaptool-create >>> >>> >>> Otherwise you can dd the SD card to xzcat to produce a compressed image >>> file like Robert distributes testing images on elinux.org >>> >>> >>> On Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 3:05:37 PM UTC-5, [email protected] >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Good afternoon! >>>> >>>> I have successfully created a bootablr microSD by using the following: >>>> >>>> /opt/scripts/tools/eMMC/beaglebone-black-make-microSD-flasher-from-eMMC.sh >>>> to write an image from the on-board eMMC to a microSD card >>>> >>>> Now I need to send the image to our colleagues in Houston, and I want >>>> to create an single image file from the newly created bootable microSD >>>> card, how can I do this? >>>> >>>> Best regards, >>>> Kevin >>>> >>>> -- >>> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "BeagleBoard" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
