Using Ugoos AM6B+.
I am surely missing something but I seem unable to use ceemmc to create a backup of my current installation on a USB disk.
I did it in the past without problem, now I simply wanted to update the backup to a more recent state of the machine and I am unable to do so.
I start the machine, it boots from eMMC. I insert the USB disk. The USB disk is “seen” in Kodi, from File manager.
I ssh to the machine, use ceemmc -x and I am presented with the usual options.
Existing CoreELEC dual boot installation found on eMMC
Migrate CoreELEC dual boot to single boot installation
Use CoreELEC data from
[1] current used SD or USB device
[2] the existing data on eMMC
[3] existing backup on current used SD or USB device
Renew current CoreELEC dual boot installation on eMMC
Use CoreELEC data from
[4] current used SD or USB device
[5] existing backup on current used SD or USB device
[6] Make a backup of current CoreELEC dual boot installation on eMMC to current used SD or USB device
[7] Remove current CoreELEC dual boot installation on eMMC
At this point I select 6, as I think I have always done in the past.
CE replies with:
Used space of 'flash partiton on eMMC': 264MB
Free space of 'SD or USB device': 19336MB
Make a backup of CoreELEC data on the flash partition of eMMC?
The “SD or USB device” free space is not the USB I insert. That disk is 16GB…
Those 19GB are the internal eMMC available space. And, in fact, the same options are presented if I don’t insert the USB disk.
But the USB disk is “seen” by the system. It appears in Kodi’s file manager, for instance. And it’s the same USB disk where I had previously used ceemmc to create a full backup (and a working one, as I used it to setup a new machine too).