Cloning a filesystem using the bootldr

From: Mark G. Lewis (Lewis@erg.sri.com)
Date: Thu Aug 22 2002 - 14:13:28 EDT

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Jamey, Sacha,

Did you ever get this (see below) working as documented in
http://www.handhelds.org/handhelds-faq/filesystems.html#CLONING-IPAQS???

Can I use bootldr to save the root partition to a CF memory or
microdrive?
I'm using 2.18.48 and it does not seem to work.

Thank you
Mark

Example 6. Cloning a filesystem using the bootldr
The bootldr can write to CF/IDE partitions or to VFAT filesytems. Using
this mechanism, one can make a copy of the root filesystem image.
boot> copy input=flash:root output=cfa0:/backup.jffs2
boot> vfat write 0x50040000 /backup.jffs2

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