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Originally Posted by PeterT
Remember; it's kind of pointless having a backup unless there is a way to restore it!
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🤔 Very true. For some reason I was thinking that if I can backup all the partitions this way, then I can restore them as well, but reading is very different from writing. But this may still be worthwhile pursuing.
The reason this thread excited me initially is because I’m hoping to find a way to restore that doesn’t cause my Elipsa to crash. Making a backup of the mounted drive is easy. However, only my microSD Kobos have allowed me to restore simply by copying the backup over the mounted drive’s contents. This doesn’t work well for the Elipsa.
I suspect the notation and notebook syncing with Kobo’s servers is the difference, not the lack of a microSD card. When you reset the firmware and log back into the Elipsa, the server synced files must have different auth keys (or something). Copying the old content over the new content can cause corruptions or a hard firmware reset.
Instead, I have to manually copy over the side loaded books, as well as the databases in .kobo. Using cp to restore would be so much faster, but dd would make an exact restoration.