I didn’t see any recent discussions on this. I’m thinking of putting a second Vero on another TV. Is there a way to fully backup the current Vero V so it has the whole thing that I can just restore to the new one? Accounts, NFS shares, artwork, the whole schmear.
@grahamh had a tool to do this using the 4K/4K+ eMMC but I don’t think it’s been adapted to Vero V and there are some sensitive partitions.
It’s something I’m considering in the future so users can create their own flashable images, but we don’t have anything in place presently.
A backup from My OSMC will cover most things.
My script does work on Vero V [How to] Make periodic backups of whole OSMC system . It doesn’t touch the ‘hidden’ partitions so that’s not a problem. The tricky bit is to get a kernel.img and dtb.img from an up to date install image and copy those into the media containing the backup. And some people have pointed out it’s counter-intuitive to use the restore script to make a backup direct to the USB/SD card that you use to install the backup to the target device.
Also, the donor Vero and target must be up to date (ie on the same release).
Then of course you will need to re-name the target Vero and re-set networking if you’ve used a fixed IP.
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I achieved exactly (to the best of my knowledge!) what OP is trying to do by:
Ensuring existing and new Vero V are on current OS. Then I performed a full backup of my working V to the SD card.
Next, I took the SD card containing the backup to my desktop and used Win32 Disk Imager and made an image of the SD card.
Now take the SD card (needs to be the same size as the SD the image came from) for the new V and restore the image to this card.
Insert it into your new V, run the OSMC backup utility and restore the backup from your working V.
Reboot, check the network setting, and mine new V became an identical working copy of my working V, complete with the full library (40tb on network shares).
Every new version I repeat this process, which then updates the library on the newer V with the original V, where I do 95% of my viewing and 100% of the library updates. The only thing to remember is that both Vs NEED to be updated to current version, they can’t be on different OS versions.
The caveat is that I don’t have multiple accounts or complex user arrangements so I cannot confirm this isn’t an issue. I can confirm that this has worked for me and I continue to use this method to update and keep my bedroom V (newer) in sync with my living room V (original V), and have experienced not a single issue, its flawless for me, I hope it helps.
Yep but it won’t cover OS level changes that OP wants. From memory we do cover fstab but autofs mounts for example won’t be backed up.
Appreciate all the legwork.If I have to redo it manually, not the end of the world though.
Ahhhhh, Thanks Sam, I figured I was missing something in all that! Appreciate the knowledge!