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Originally Posted by eureka
It's also [obviously] OK and safe to boot into main, manually mount diags and dump diags to /mnt/us.
Just clarifying things.
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Perhaps by the time that you have an SSH shell. But in my experience, backups made by a RUNME.sh script (run DURING startup) can cause corrupt partitions. So it all depends on WHEN you do it. From a RUNME.sh, the safest way is to dump a partition after booting from the OTHER partition (a bit hard to do on a K3).
I like to tell people a fairly simple way that should always work. Originally, I wanted 5.1.1 backups that were virgin (not hacked -- only data.tar.gz and RUNME.sh that do not modify anything but the USB drive and /var/local, but should not be done from a booted partition to prevent corruption.)
Yes, when running SSH prompt AFTER the framework has finished loading, you are probably safe to dump both partitions, but again, I have gotten corrupt partitions a bit too often for comfort and just stick with "dump the OTHER partition" (which always works). I like methods that ALWAYS work.