On Sat, May 17, 2025 at 10:43 AM, AndyH wrote:
Even well behaved Pis corrupt and SD card from time to time, so it's "always" a good idea to have a ready backup or three regardless.
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Correct, yet corruption is even less likely if you do an orderly shutdown.? The OP coded a way to do that when you don't have a keyboard, which is supposed to be a major use case for zbitx.
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It feels to me that this point is being missed, quite possibly because the community has not found a good way to get fixes/improvements into the official code base.
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If you really want to test your backups, I could write a program that you could install that occasionally zeros out random blocks on your SD card just to see how long it takes to corrupt something important.? If the next boot happens to be at a POTA/SOTA site and the boot code needs info from that zero'd block, it'll teach a lesson about how important it is to bring up-to-date backups with you everywhere you intend to operate.
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I think the idea is to both have good backups, and to not need those good backups.
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Yet, as above, the fix/improvement will probably end up living on only in unofficial forks.
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Regards,
Dave, N1AI
Dave, N1AI