Is it possible to transfer the entire Armbian system from SD card to HDD? ... it is known that the SD card has a lower endurance than such a HDD dist (write, read etc.)
I tried to transfer the system in such a way that I first upgraded the kernel to the newest one on the SD card and then moved the system files to a partition on the HDD:

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt

time tar --one-file-system -cpf - / | (cd /mnt && tar -xpf -)

then knowing the sda1 partition information and ID

lsblk -f

then knowing the sda1 partition information and ID
I changed the UUID / HDD number in two locations

nano /boot/boot.ini

Quote

# default settings, will be overwritten from armbianEnv.txt
setenv macaddr "01:1b:06:77:7a:44"
setenv rootdev "UUID=xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxx"
setenv rootfstype "ext4"
setenv console "both"
setenv bootlogo "false"
setenv verbosity "1"

and

nano /etc/fstab

Quote

UUID=xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxx / ext4 defaults,noatime,commit=600,errors=remount-ro 0 1
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,nosuid 0 0

after rebooting the system ... surprisingly it works OK, but actually the samba / ftp network (server vsftpd).
The update also seems to work OK, i.e.
apt update / apt upgrade ...
However, there are programs that cause the Armbian system to stop working completely, eg transmission when downloading files to the HDD? ... restarting the system helps, but is it the fault of the transmission program itself copied from the SD card or maybe the Armbian system cannot work properly on the HDD? ...
or maybe something else needs to be done to correctly transfer the system from the SD card to the HDD?

if I restore the settings and boot from the SD card, Armbian / transmission / download works OK? I haven't checked the option of uninstalling transmission from the system to HDD yet and setting everything up again ... but will it help? 

Edited November 3, 20223 yr by kris777

I did it with a tool built into the Armbian system ... the system has been moved to the sda1 partition, so far it works OK.
 

nand-sata-install

There is also a possibility that something is wrong with the hardware, maybe HC1 / power supply, etc., I have to look for.

After a week of checking, the server on HC1 works perfect 🙂 
the nand-sata-install install option helped !

thank you for this option on Armbian!