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Full Disk Backup

Create a full disk backup of the UAV's onboard computer using either Clonezilla or dd.

Option A: Clonezilla​

  1. Boot the UAV's computer from a Clonezilla live USB.
  2. Create a disk image following the standard Clonezilla workflow.
  3. Compress the resulting image folder into a .zip file.

Option B: dd + pigz​

Create a compressed image of the entire disk using dd piped through pigz:

sudo dd if=/dev/<disk> bs=4M status=progress conv=sparse | pigz -c > backup_image.img.gz
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This creates a compressed image of the entire disk, approximately 27GB. The process may take a few hours depending on disk size and speed.

Upload the Backup​

Upload both README.md and backup_image.img.gz to Firmware Backup/SSD/.

Restoring the UAV from Backup​

If you used dd and pigz, restore the image with:

pigz -dc /path/to/backup/backup_image.img.gz | sudo dd of=/dev/<disk> bs=4M status=progress conv=sparse

If you used Clonezilla, restore using the standard Clonezilla "restore disk" workflow with the unzipped image folder.