easy cloning for pogoplug

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easy cloning for pogoplug

Postby chewyboy » Tue Oct 15, 2013 5:39 am

OK let's say i have a pogoplug that i have setup just like i want and need to duplicate the setup exactly, not once but several times. what would be the fastest/easiest way to do this.


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Re: easy cloning for pogoplug

Postby chewyboy » Tue Oct 15, 2013 7:38 am

OK I'm going to answer my own question so anyone else who needs this info has easy access to it. This should work for other configurations as well.

things we are going to assume
you want to be lazy and work from within xp/7/windows. your pogoplug has ssh access, it is new and so is your usb drive. the hardware between them all is the same as well.

first setup your pogoplug the way you want it setup. now that it is setup correctly and tested working go download usb image tool http://www.alexpage.de/

plug your usb drive into your your computer and create an image of it.

now ssh into your pogoplug
Download and run the U-Boot installer:
cd /tmp
wget http://archlinuxarm.org/os/ppv4/ppv4-install.sh
chmod +x ppv4-install.sh
./ppv4-install.sh

power off the unit
/sbin/poweroff

now get your usb drive and go back into usb image tool. select the usb drive and click the restore button, choose your image. This will take a bit once done put it in the pogoplug and bob's your uncle
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Re: easy cloning for pogoplug

Postby Socaltom » Tue Oct 15, 2013 9:55 pm

I just use dd

dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1 BS=4096

Tom
used to be owned by me
Pink Pogo V2, Black Pogo V3, Zyxel NAS 325 v1,
used to be Adminstrator for
Goflex net, Black V3, Black V2
Now I have a couple of raspberry pi ( 3+ and 4)
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Re: easy cloning for pogoplug

Postby WarheadsSE » Tue Oct 15, 2013 10:47 pm

Preferably not with a running system...
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Re: easy cloning for pogoplug

Postby chewyboy » Wed Oct 16, 2013 3:59 am

dd can have problems if you do it on a running system. Plus only 1 usb port can also cause problems. This was more intended for laziest/easiest solution. Either way I hope it helps someone out.
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