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How to preserve personal settings between R1CBU firmware upgrades?

 

I have a question... I upgraded to v0.28 and love it a lot. But every time I upgrade I have to redo all my settings. I understand that there's a way to backup and then reload my settings... Someone suggested backing up “data”? Can somebody give a summary on how to do that? Would be grateful... redoing it every time is no fun.
73, Randy K7RAN

P.S. I previously buried this question in a barely-related thread and got no traction, so I thought it better to create a topic.
 

Hi Randy,

You probably didn't get much traction before because it's been mentioned many times on the mailing list.
Before you flash your SD card with the new firmware version, put the SD card *into your computer* and you should see a disk appear named "DATA". Copy all the files off of that drive somewhere else, like on your main computer.

Then, flash the SD card with the new firmware and boot the SD card in the radio at least once. Yes, your settings will appear to be reset.

Then, put the SD card *back* into your computer and copy the saved files back into the DATA drive. This restores your settings.

On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 8:34?AM Randy K7RAN via <padawer=[email protected]> wrote:
I have a question... I upgraded to v0.28 and love it a lot. But every time I upgrade I have to redo all my settings. I understand that there's a way to backup and then reload my settings... Someone suggested backing up “data”? Can somebody give a summary on how to do that? Would be grateful... redoing it every time is no fun.
73, Randy K7RAN

P.S. I previously buried this question in a barely-related thread and got no traction, so I thought it better to create a topic.



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Thank you, Lance!
73, Randy K7RAN
 

Randy,
if you are familiar with Linux, you could add these few lines to the '/etc/init.d/S01create_data' script that should hopefully preserve the existing DATA partition on your SD card:
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These lines need to be added after you write a new R1CBU firmware upgrade to the SD card, and before you put that card with the new firmware in the X6100.
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Basically right after you write the SD card, you have to mount /dev/sdX2 somewhere on your Linux PC, edit the file <mountpoint>/etc/init.d/S01create_data, add those lines in the same place as in the link above, and finally eject the card (eject /dev/sdX).
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You may want to make a backup first, should something go wrong.
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73,
Franco K4VZ
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Let me add, if you are using Windows, when you put the card back in your PC to copy back your backed up data, the Data partition may not show up as a drive.? That is a Windows issue.? You need to go into Disk Management, find the correct drive, right click on the Data partition and add drive letter.? You can now copy back the data to it.
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Also note that this does not back up Wifi passwords.? That is covered in another message thread.??
 

Another option that I thought of to keep the data persistent across R1CBU firmware upgrades would be store it somewhere in the internal MMC device instead of the SD card.
I wrote the attached S01mount_data script which can be used in lieu of S01create_data, and the data will be stored in the radio itself.
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Of course one of the issues with this approach is that if the X6100 dies and needs to be replaced, that data is gone too; also backing up this data is doable but it is a little trickier.
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Franco
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S01mount_data
S01mount_data

 

There is a discussion about saving/restoring settings on the github: https://github.com/gdyuldin/x6100_gui/discussions/20
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