piCore is a little different from normal Linux distributions. It is "installed" fresh every time you boot from static readonly extensions. The backup only contains the dynamic files, such as configuration files and your home directory. This backup is loaded over the top of your fresh piCore install each time you boot. So you don't need to manually load it. It is an integral part of piCore design.
This strategy means you are starting with a nice clean system after every boot. If you modify the system, it will be gone after a reboot unless you take actions to include your changed files in .filetool.lst. This protects against bit rot, junk files, a build up of temp files, viruses, intrusions etc Personally I don't do SD card backups. I can't see the point (for me) as a burning a new image takes about 10 seconds and setup of pCP only takes me a couple of minutes. I use USBImager to burn SD cards but haven't used the copy from SD card function. https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=265251 https://gitlab.com/bztsrc/usbimager SD card copies are usually very slow, because it creates an imagine the size of your SD card (16GB?) not just the 120MB that pCP uses. dd could will be quicker but you need to include both partitions. Windows for example only see the first partition by default. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Greg Erskine's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7403 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111787 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
