Posting this here per:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')PLEASE READ] Forum Restructuring
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backing up NIB pogo v4 ?
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backing up NIB pogo v4 ?
by dayglo » Sun Oct 20, 2013 8:00 pm
Assuming Arch is shorthand for "architecture", not "Archlinux"
If this isn't right, apologies and please relocate it to the proper forum.
Ok, that's out of the way.
Got a New In Box Pogo v4. I have serial cables and have no problems with soldering ribbon to the appropriate places once I open it up. I have worked with several of the pogo pink v2, so none of this is new.
what I don't know is how to back up the flash (aka NAND?) off the brand new unit before I start messing around with it. I've been looking around and have not found anything definitive (notice I'm not saying there isn't one, just that I haven't found it if there is).
If there is, can someone post a URL to it?
I have come across a couple of variations to do this task:
from viewtopic.php?f=18&t=789
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'nanddump -nf usb/mtd0.oob /dev/mtd0
nanddump -nf usb/mtd1.oob /dev/mtd1
nanddump -nf usb/mtd2.oob /dev/mtd2
nanddump -nof usb/mtd0 /dev/mtd0
nanddump -nof usb/mtd1 /dev/mtd1
nanddump -nof usb/mtd2 /dev/mtd2')
This is for goflex though; does that matter?
from viewtopic.php?f=53&t=6147
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'f')or the backups you need to do something like this:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', ' dd if=/dev/mtd0 of=mtd0.img
dd if=/dev/mtd1 of=mtd1.img
dd if=/dev/mtd2 of=mtd2.img')
or better with nanddump:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', ' ./nanddump -nf USB/mtd0 /dev/mtd0
./nanddump -nf USB/mtd1 /dev/mtd1
./nanddump -nf USB/mtd2 /dev/mtd2')
looks substantially the same, but there's enough differences I'm not sure. And also later in that same post they talk about mtd parts
So, since this is NIB, untouched so to speak, I want to do it 'right' the first time. Except I don't know what 'right' is in this case. Sounds dumb, I know, but anyway, is there a definitive way to do a full backup of factory and restore to factory?
thanks!
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