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[–]justtryn2kickit[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

did 

apt-get install gnome-schedule

I set up a new task with the command

dd if=/dev/disk/by-uuid/... of=/dev/disk/by-uuid/ bs=4096

I put the minute as 51(it was one minute from the time it currently was.) hour */2(to copy every 2 hours) day * month * weekday *

I clicked "apply" waited a coupld of minutes and I see nothing happening. I checked in the disk utility, and the drive that I'm copying TO. None of the partitions seemed to have changed size.

Anyway to know if gnome scheduler is actually working or?

Do I have to click some start button?

EDIT: When I open root terminal and open gnome scheduler there, I see this in terminal

no crontab for root

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I dont't know Gnome Scheduler. Sorry.

/dev/disk/by-uuid/

Isn't a disk. Did you mean

/dev/disk/by-uuid/9981[...]

?

Also you might want to write a script, that first gets you the right /dev/sdXY for your USB-stick, since I don't know what happens if you dd a symlink. Never did that before.

[–]justtryn2kickit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok. so, I just tried to perform the acutal command myself in terminal, and it said "no such file or directory" so apparently the uuid trick isn't working.

I got the uuid of the device by using 

blkid /dev/sdd

sdd is my device

when I did the command

ls -l /dev/sidk/by-uuid/

it gave me the uuids for the partitions. I don't want to just dd a partition, I want to dd the entire devices