One Drive gives free storage, Google Drive offers free storage. Its just a matter of staying within the free limits. If the OP was not wanting electronic transfer, he already has the SD card made and could have dropped it in the mail instead of asking how to make an image file from the SD card!
On Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 9:06:20 PM UTC-5, William Hermans wrote: > > 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] > <javascript:>> 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] <javascript:>. >> 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.
