Hi, I'm really glad this got acknowledged. The efs partition got corrupted a few days ago and was restored just fine with this method
On Wednesday, 24 March 2021, 23:11:29 GMT, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <gnu...@cyberdimension.org> wrote: On Sun, 21 Mar 2021 14:15:08 -0400 Tad <t...@spotco.us> wrote: > That is a very weird way to backup a partition. > > Please instead try the following: > > $ adb shell > $ su > $ dd if=/dev/block/platform/dw_mmc/by-name/EFS of=/sdcard/efs.img > $ exit > $ adb pull /sdcard/efs.img > > To restore use Heimdall or Fastboot. > You can maybe do it running by: > $ adb push efs.img /sdcard/ > $ adb shell > $ su > $ dd if=/sdcard/efs.img of=/dev/block/platform/dw_mmc/by-name/EFS > $ reboot > > You can also use adb root instead of su if not available. Thanks, I should really use dd instead. It was in my TODO list but I never took the time to try it and update the documentation. I used cat to have a single command to get the block device in the past but that command turned out to be very problematic. That is probably why there is still a 'cat' here. As for the '*' they are used to minimize the number of instructions. Having the files in addition to the block device is also very useful as we have 2 different backups done in 2 different ways. It also validates that people can really access the files when the backup is done. Denis. _______________________________________________ Replicant mailing list Replicant@osuosl.org https://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/replicant
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