[PANiCnz]

Is anyone out there backing up their XBMC installation? Specifically XBMCLive?

Just did a reinstall and got everything back to the way I like it. Tempted to have a play with the PVR branch but don't want to risk mucking everything up.

So was thinking I could clone/image the drive and do a restore in the event everything goes to poop.

Can anyone out there recommend a good tool (preferably free) for doing this?

Cheers

[vikjon0]

free: clonezilla. Works VERY good compared do non free. "GUI" not that good.

None free: norton ghost or acronis true image. I really like the latter but I now only use clonezilla since acronis struggle with some USB disks.

[ihaterich]

I like Acronis True Image, but it's not free.

DiscWizard is a free clone of Acronis True Image. I've never tried it, but hear good things.

DriveImage XML (also free) is supposed to be good as well.

[PANiCnz]

Thanks for the responses guys will give your recommendations a crack.

[lightshow12]

I use Clonezilla Live CD

[paul]

I use windows back up on windows 7 and it's alot easier to use than norton ghost or even Drive image. Plus it's free

[schneidz]

Is anyone out there backing up their XBMC installation? Specifically XBMCLive?

Just did a reinstall and got everything back to the way I like it. Tempted to have a play with the PVR branch but don't want to risk mucking everything up.

So was thinking I could clone/image the drive and do a restore in the event everything goes to poop.

Can anyone out there recommend a good tool (preferably free) for doing this?

Cheers

for my 4 gb usb hd, used dd to create a bak of the drive and save it on my server... have needed to restore from it a few times. e.g.:

Code:

dd if=/dev/sdb of=xbmc-bak.iso

[schneidz]

I use windows back up on windows 7 and it's alot easier to use than norton ghost or even Drive image. Plus it's free

windows-7 is not free

[PANiCnz]

for my 4 gb usb hd, used dd to create a bak of the drive and save it on my server... have needed to restore from it a few times. e.g.:

Code:

dd if=/dev/sdb of=xbmc-bak.iso

How would you go about restoring the image? This sounds like the most simply and easiest solution!

[schneidz]

How would you go about restoring the image? This sounds like the most simply and easiest solution!

Code:

dd if=xbmc-bak.iso of=/dev/sdb

consider filling the empty space of the disk with 0's.
aalso consider piping the command thru bzip2.

[Silvern]

Hi Guys,

Just got XBMC Live running sweet but I was a little worried because the usb I used is a freebie from a conference. So I bought myself a nice little 4GB Sandisk USB.

I've used the xbmc bootable drive wizard on the new usb drive. It's a clean install, all working fine. How do I go about copying my config files from the old usb to the new? Specifically, which files/folders do I need to copy across?

Many thanks

[vikjon0]

Hi Guys,

Search the forum (use google) or start a new thread!

[Silvern]

I have used google, and the search tool - nothing in detail on backup to a NEW usb. And didn't want to start a new thread when this one is basically referring to the same thing.

I guess what I'm really asking is does the partition size matter (new usb is 4GB, old was 2GB) or can I just copy the live-rw file across?

[schneidz]

^ gparted-live, maybe

[Silvern]

Ended up just doing a full reinstall on to the new USB. Was much faster than my first go (10 mins instead of 8 hours!).