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docs:guide-user:installation:generic.backup [2021/12/05 11:22] – [Create full MTD backup] vgaeteradocs:guide-user:installation:generic.backup [2022/07/11 15:06] – Add instructions for how to explore MTD backups spookyuser
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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://github.com/sviehb/jefferson|jefferson]] with the command
 +
 +<code bash>
 +jefferson mtd4_rootfs_data.backup -d rootfs
 +</code>
 +
 +Where the mtd4_rootfs_data.backup file is the mtd block you want to explore. Likely this will be >rootfs_data as it contains most of the customizations you will have made to openwrt.
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