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Does anyone happen to have a (signed) update.zip package that when installed via recovery mode, copies the contents of SYSTEM:, DATA: etc to the SD card?

It looks like it would be pretty easy to make one, but this seems like such an obvious thing to do that I thought I'd check first to see if anyone had already done one. (And save me the time.)

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With the intent of avoiding rooting or a custom recovery? – Matthew Read♦ Oct 7 '11 at 21:37
With the intent of trying to copy the contents off a not-quite-working device so I can look to see why it's not-quite-working. (Recovery partition works but it doesn't boot.) – David Given Oct 7 '11 at 22:56
Stock or custom recovery like ClockworkMod? – Chahk Oct 8 '11 at 14:11
Stock. In fact, after my first attempt to write my own backup update.zip it no longer boots into recovery (it just hangs at the startup screen), so I suspect my requirement for this has gone away... for reference, do not try copy_dir SYSTEM: SDCARD:system. – David Given Oct 8 '11 at 18:35
Incidentally, if anyone wants to know what it is... your guess is as good as mine, but it looks like this: made-in-china.com/showroom/2smartech/product-detailIMuxVXYdCBkm/… Huzzah for no-name Chinese products. – David Given Oct 8 '11 at 18:43

closed as too localized by Izzy, t0mm13b, roxan, Al Everett, onik♦ Apr 2 at 9:10

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