Saw this over at Freaktab. Thought there may be some interest.
I have not used it, so I cannot determine its suitability.
If you find it useful, please let the developer, bumerc, know. 
If I am correct…, it is some kind of backup tool for AML android firmware, that can also do backups of individual system partitions…
Seems nice…
Looked like it might be able to do what @BowerR64 was wanting to do. If so, it will take someone like you to help them with it.
“A small tool for repacking the main partitions system, vendor, odm and product, insert init.d, root access etc., and build an aml_upgrade_package installation image”.
Yes, perhaps it will be useful for his problem…
I can help him with the backup, I don’t know about the tool, till you have mentioned it here, but I will try it out, and explain to him of how to use it… but only after I have gain some experience first… 
it says there, for advanced users 
Define the term “Advanced user” 
I don’t read the fine print much… so I don’t care about there instruction often , and I just wing it 
Yes, that is why I did not volunteer to help, I ain’t advanced enough. 