Clone Device / Backup to Multiple devices

Hunduster · May 7, 2024 at 11:49 AM

Hello everyone,

We use a single profile on one TV in our household. I would like to install two more Kodi instances in the bedroom and hobby room.

Since my “master system” is all set up, I thought I could make a backup of Libreelec and install it on the other two systems. After the recovery, I would then change the computer name and IP address on each system.

Is this a good, feasible way or not a good idea?

**chewitt** · May 7, 2024 at 1:39 PM

It should work fine, but since all three devices are network connected it's easier (after basic install, and assuming all three devices are the same, e.g. all RPi4 boards) to stop Kodi on the new devices and then scp the existing config/bits over from the master system to the new ones, then restart Kodi. I would scp the the contents of /storage/.kodi/addons and /storage/.kodi/userdata only.

Code

scp -r /storage/.kodi/addons root@192.168.1.10:/storage/.kodi
scp -r /storage/.kodi/userdata root@192.168.1.11:/storage/.kodi

Hunduster · May 17, 2024 at 3:23 PM

Hi, please excuse the late reply.

The master system is an RPi5, the slave an RPi4. But both are on LibreElec12. Can I not proceed like this?

**chewitt** · May 18, 2024 at 6:15 AM

I wouldn't expect any issues with a mix of RPi4/5 boards.

Clone Device / Backup to Multiple devices

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