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Is there a list of CFW settings that aren't stored on the HDD?

everthewatcher

everthewatcher

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I ask as after swapping the HDD from a machine with a tuner issue to a spare machine, it's clear some of the package settings didn't follow the drive. I've spotted that the redring settings and undelete folder name needed to be manually updated for example.

Also the SMB3 Beta package is no longer given as an available update although opkg-beta is shown as installed. (No, it's not been installed.)

[Edit] Another also: Is there the means of getting the machine to clone its HDD to a USB-connected identical drive? The HDD in the spare machine has had far less use than the one I swapped over.
 
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At the very least you should run the fix-flash-packages diagnostic. That will restore the functionality and the default configurations of packages with settings in flash.
You either have to configure them again manually, or you can use rsync to recursively copy /mod/boot/ on one machine to the same place on another. This is left as an exercise for the reader.

You can clone disks using dd, like with any other Linux out there.
 
everthewatcher said:
[Edit] Another also: Is there the means of getting the machine to clone its HDD to a USB-connected identical drive? The HDD in the spare machine has had far less use than the one I swapped over.
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What, at 200MB/min? You would be better off copying files rather than cloning file systems.
 
prpr said:
At the very least you should run the fix-flash-packages diagnostic.
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Ta. That restored functionality but left the settings untouched.

As for copying the HDD, I was thinking of what you need to do to copy/clone Windows boot disk. Copying the file structure over is all that's needed here.
 
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