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ilovemymac · 2013-07-05, 06:57

I am running Ubuntu on the computer. I have a couple flash drives for friends with ATV 1 and want me to do an XBMC install.
I did one and it worked fine. I did another and the screen went to the OPENELEC icon and then back to the apple icon and booted to the ATV.
So i read about cloning a drive. So i did that using the DD command in ubuntu.

Then i got it to boot and come up with updating kernel
overrighting flash/ mach kernal?
So i figured i screwed up the DD command some how.

THEN i thought about just making an image on the hard drive and then doing a DD copy from the image. I got the image but it wont let me touch the USB blank flash because it says permission denied. I have tried everything but it will not let me change permissions.

I am at wits end on this and cant figure out what i did wrong. I just want to make a clone of my USB

thd042 · 2013-07-05, 10:07

What dd-command did you use?
If you USB-Sticks are same size, or the arget is larger, you can use

sudo dd if=/dev/sdS of=/dev/sdT

where S is the drive letter of the Source stick and T the letter of the target. And "sudo" will fix your permission denied problem.

If you did something like

sudo dd if=/dev/sdS1 of=myCopyOnDisk

you will miss partition size and boot sector on the clone when copying back.

ilovemymac · 2013-07-05, 10:20

sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc bs=4096 conv=notrunc,noerror

Honestly i would like to just copy the XBMC data folder so i dont have to do the install of OPENELEC and then go in and select each add on and configure it and all that. I have several people who want XBMC on their ATV 1. (Next time ill know not to tell everyone i know wow this is great you can relaly make your Apple tv work great again.)
Anyway i thought i could just clone the USB. They are identical in size same usb maker.
BUt it seems to take forever so i thought maybe just the XBMC folder?

Either way just so i get it done.

nickr · 2013-07-05, 11:25

Well then just copy the xbmc folder.

ilovemymac · 2013-07-05, 16:40

It won't let me says I don't have permission

nickr · 2013-07-05, 22:03

Use sudo

ilovemymac · 2013-07-05, 22:06

It says permission denied. I can't drag the contents over either.

nickr · 2013-07-05, 22:30

Ok so you have two usb flash drives, both mounted. Lets call the mountpoints /media/flasha and /media/flashb

You need to do something like

Code:
sudo rsync -avpP /media/flasha/path/to/.xbmc /media/flashb/path/to

I am not sure exactly what the path is but it should be easy to find.

ilovemymac · 2013-07-05, 23:21

What will this do? And how do I find the path

nickr · 2013-07-05, 23:37

It will copy the entire contents of the .xbmc directory on flasha to flashb. You said you just wanted to copy the xbmc settings, that is where the settings are stored. I dont know eactly where the path is on your system.

ilovemymac · 2013-07-06, 00:05

Oh ok I will try that. Thank you for your help. New Linux user here. Although I have used terminal in my Mac for years.

ilovemymac · 2013-07-06, 04:43

How do you find the path?

ilovemymac · 2013-07-06, 04:55

I know the path to Xbmc what I meant is do I put in media/ whatever the flash name is?

ilovemymac · (This post was last modified: 2013-07-06, 05:56 by ilovemymac.)

When I type the first line I just get a long list of options and then rsync error syntax or usage error code 1 at main.c(1521)

thd042 · 2013-07-07, 18:54

rsync basically copies files from source to target, but one can add options to only backup changed files.

-a turns on archive mode, this will consider recursively all files in the source tree, -v adds some verbosity, -P keeps partially transferred files, -p keeps file permissions.

Somehow I get the impression, your target stick has some flaws. Can you do

Code:
sudo touch /media/flashb/path/to/test

This tries to create a file test in the target directory.