11:09 <yang> Hi, I have RPI 4/8 GB. My current LE version 10.0.2 installation (an upgrade from 9.2.8) is on RPI 3B+ on the SD card. Can I simply exchange the SD card and insert it into RPI 4 and will it work? Or is it better to reinstall LE with version 10.0.2 onto the new SD card and I'd like to somehow restore the GUI settings from the previous installation?

17:01 <mack> yang: why not just make an image of your SD as backup, and try it? Rewrite your card with the backup image if it doesn't work like you want.

17:04 <mack> otherwise, there is a Backup utility in LE settings if you want to backup and restore to a clean install. Or you can move /storage/.kodi/userdata. As you say, clean up old addons

17:07 <yang> hi mack

17:08 <yang> Right, I could try making an image of the SD card.

17:16 <yang> mack: is there a "proper way" about making a copy to preserve all data?

17:29 <yang> mack: will this procedure be fine ? https://www.ev3dev.org/docs/tutorials/writing-sd-card-image-linux-command-line/

17:48 <mack> yang, yes that is fine, or there are several GUI applications that can do the same thing

17:55 <shibboleth> tar cvpf /path/to/backup.tar /storage/.kodi

17:55 <shibboleth> systemctl stop kodi first

17:56 <shibboleth> that's just for kodi thought, LE itself stores some things in /storage/.config and /storage/.cache

17:56 <shibboleth> but these are trivial to reconfigure

17:58 <yang> xzcat /mnt/disk2/LE-20220507.img.xz | pv | dd bs=4M of=/dev/sdd

17:58 <yang> xzcat: /mnt/disk2/LE-20220507.img.xz: No such file or directory

18:01 <yang> something isn't right

18:01 <yang> https://paste.debian.net/plain/1240194

18:06 <diederik> why do you do 'touch'? I'd guess that 'LE-20220507.img.xz' is a LibreELEC image that you downloaded. And then with the xzcat command you write that to a SDcard which is plugged in with a device identified by /dev/sdd

18:07 <yang> I need to do just the opposite

18:07 <yang> then the manual isn't the right one

18:08 <yang> I want to write from SD card into the image file...

18:14 <diederik> 'mount /dev/sdd /mnt'; 'tar cfJ sdcard-backup.tar.xz /mnt' ?

18:24 <yang> nah /dev/sdd isn't a partition

18:34 <diederik> dd if=/dev/sdd of=sdcard-backup.img bs=4M

18:35 <yang> yes, thanks