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| docs:guide-user:installation:generic.backup [2021/12/05 11:21] – formatting vgaetera | docs:guide-user:installation:generic.backup [2022/07/11 15:06] – Add instructions for how to explore MTD backups spookyuser | ||
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| This script assumes a working Bash and SSH in native Unix-like or WSL environment. | This script assumes a working Bash and SSH in native Unix-like or WSL environment. | ||
| If you've changed your router' | If you've changed your router' | ||
| - | This will backup your mtd contents to a compressed tarball file "mtd_backup.tgz" | + | This will backup your mtd contents to a compressed tarball file '' |
| <code bash> | <code bash> | ||
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| Then you must flash this to you device, boot it, and now the partition should be writable. | Then you must flash this to you device, boot it, and now the partition should be writable. | ||
| + | ===== Exploring MTD Backups ===== | ||
| + | If you want to explore the contents of an MTD backup on your computer, without restoring it to openwrt, you can use [[https:// | ||
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| + | <code bash> | ||
| + | jefferson mtd4_rootfs_data.backup -d rootfs | ||
| + | </ | ||
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| + | Where the mtd4_rootfs_data.backup file is the mtd block you want to explore. Likely this will be > | ||