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How to clone USB key whis installed N4F?

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How to clone USB key whis installed N4F?

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Hi,
I have installed N4F embedded on USB key.
It does't work stably for a long time and I want to clone it to new USB key.

How can I do it whisout new installation N4F?

Thanx!

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Re: How to clone USB key whis installed N4F?

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Look at here
https://www.nas4free.org/forums/viewtop ... 285#p54285
dd if=/dev/source device of=/dev/dest device bs=1024K conv=noerror,sync
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Re: How to clone USB key whis installed N4F?

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Oh, thank you!

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Re: How to clone USB key whis installed N4F?

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Another option is to export the config, swap out and install onto the new usb, then import the config. This would also permit you to use a differently-sized usb drive, and if the new drive is larger removes the need to expand partitions (though is not critical to retain functionality.)

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Re: How to clone USB key whis installed N4F?

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bocman wrote:
10 Mar 2017 08:15
Hi,
I have installed N4F embedded on USB key.
It does't work stably for a long time and I want to clone it to new USB key.

How can I do it whisout new installation N4F?

Thanx!

If the system is not stable at all, then cloning that device means welcoming all the existing corruption from the old device to the new device, better save your config file and reinstall/import config as previously denoted by hailthemelody, also consider to run Memtest86+ on the affected machine.

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