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Force creation of backup.bin. Demand backup.bin exists before allowing injections. Dual backups.

Open Asure opened this issue 8 years ago • 1 comments

This is a change i'd like to request. From the past few days i am seeing people not backup up the original cards' firmware, and then;

1a. Attempting to restore back the dumps available on-line and failing. 1b. Succeeding in a restore from a dump on-line but loosing options or partially failing. Sometimes a new HW revision comes along and it differs from the previous one. Flashing 'old' dumps into those cards breaks them (or some part is gone, like wifi or rts/ability to read SD, as it was just a clever clone with a different SD interface in the globtop. 2. Not backing up the cards' firmware (resulting in a restore, and we're back to # 1 above.)

Implementing this would mitigate the risk of a broken card. I would suggest a double backup with a crc file (sha256?) to ensure both are the same file proper dumped. A database could optionally be created to detect (un)dumped firmware and implemented later in GUI. (as done with EvoX and the original Xbox in its .ini file)

Asure avatar Dec 18 '17 19:12 Asure

Huh. This has changed since the initial release. Thank you for pointing it out.

Originally we didn't let you inject if a backup was not present. Apparently this changed. (probably around the time of the UI rewrite)

One thing that needs to go along with this is having a different name for backups depending on the cart. e.g. dstt_backup.bin, ak2i_backup.bin, etc...

kitlith avatar Dec 18 '17 22:12 kitlith