HOW TO CLONE A ANDROID TV BOX????????

[kodimods]

I have asked this question on several forums and sites and nobody out there has ever done this? I Have several tx95 and tx5 pro boxes i have a setup with a launcher, my kodi build, other apps, settings that fixed the keyboard and passthrough fix that i want to simply clone my setup to multiple boxes! People say use twrp but it fails to see the image of my original box i want to clone. Is there a way to simply ftp into the damn thing and copy the files over to each box?

[bluesmanuk]

When you say that it fails to see the image, can you be more specific?

In terms of making an exact clone then as far as I am aware, TWRP is your the only method.

[kodimods]

I have a usb and sd card with my backup on it which looks like this. Place in the box i want to restore it to. I hit restore choose sd card as storage or usb and it doesn't see the restore file

[kodimods]

Exactly what this person is saying. It doesn't see the restore image http://freaktab.com/forum/tv-player-...android-tv-box

[neomode]

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Neomode

[bluesmanuk]

Flash TWRP recovery to the clone box and then boot into it and restore your backup.

Or boot into TWRP from an SD card and use it that way.

Edit: Just spotted that Neo has the instructions to hand, so will leave you in his capable hands.

[Trihard]

I am trying to do the same, but TWRP gives me error 255 extractTarFork()

[kodimods]

Trihard When you click restore your backup is seen?

[kodimods]

I got it to be seen before by copying my TWRP folder on the SD card to the desktop, then removing the TWRP off the Sd. I then made a backup with twrp of the box i want my settings to go to, then removed the Files from the TWRP/BACKUP and copied my clone copy back over. It then seen it but after the flash it bricked. Not sure why it's so hard to just make a Flashable image from the TWRP files so i can use a burning tool to flash to each box. I see people uploading there custom roms daily but they won't explain how they made it.

I did open the folders on my pc and i have system.ext4, system.info, data.ext4.win000, data.ext4.win001, data.info and boot.emmc.win I renamed files adding .tar then got the contents of the folders. Now im going to use the CustomizationTool tmp folder to copy them folders into the level2 folder and make a flashable image with my settings hopefully

[Trihard]

Trihard When you click restore your backup is seen?

I found a solution. TWRP doesn't allow me to backup the system, causing error 255. I only needed the data anyway since I restore after flashing the image using the boxes default recovery.

[kodimods]

I'm lost i'm trying to do something different im taking a backup from one box and trying to restore to another. Your doing a backup with twrp of the data only?

[RISCy Dude]

I don't have two identical boxes, so I cannot confirm this will do what you want to do. Hopefully someone can confirm.

This is for S905, but I would think ddBR from balbes150 should work on any box capable of running Linux, providing multi-boot has been activated. I have made BU images, but have yet to restore from same. More from translated Wiki. I thing ddBR is also available on balbes150's Alt Linux images.
ddBR is run from SD card, card also serves as storage for BUs, so card size should be considered. Read carefully, a simple mod to the script may be required.

As with all things, user assumes all responsibility for their actions.

[Trihard]

I'm lost i'm trying to do something different im taking a backup from one box and trying to restore to another. Your doing a backup with twrp of the data only?

Ok cloning files from one box to another is easy. You can't ftp transfer the files because they would be in use while the box is on. I have a bunch of x96 boxes and the process should be similar maybe even easier for you. You don't need to create a flashable zip if you can backup and restore your system, and data.

With my boxes TWRP is not preinstalled on the stock firmware so you have to first flash the twrp recovery using the amlogic burning tool

Restoring system and data basically mirrors all the files, and settings from one box to another.

[Trihard]

I have a usb and sd card with my backup on it which looks like this. Place in the box i want to restore it to. I hit restore choose sd card as storage or usb and it doesn't see the restore file

Does it look similar to this for you? I have my backups on a thumbdrive.

[balbes150]

If the iron is the same, or do not have great differences, but matching the basic parameters, which depend on the initial launch. In these cases, you can use a cloning script from Armbian. In the current images is a team of "dd_backup_x" (in the next versions of the images Armbian the simplified name will be "ddbr"). For cloning but not necessarily to activate multi-boot, you can rename the script s905_autoscript in aml_autoscript and method of floss to start Armbian to backup and then restore the copy to another media box. If this one-time procedure or speed up and restore is not important - you can use a minimal system on a USB flash drive. Maybe I'm wrong, but the difference between create and restore copies of this script and TWRP, TWRP works with data from partitions (this is a plus and minus at the same time TWRP), and the script works with the "physical bits" , no matter what they be. Therefore, for TWRP it is important that the operating system from which you run TWRP, had the correct data on the distribution of sections. Ie run the operating system with TWRP must have strictly the same data on the sections in the dtb file that will be used in the TV console. In contrast to the TWRP, script to Armbian does not apply to information about sections , which are set out in the dtb system from which you run it, it works directly with the device memory (eMMC). Please note that this does not mean that the script or TWRP is better\is worse, is that DIFFERENT systems for DIFFERENT tasks, you need to choose the right tool depending on the purpose you want to.