Thread: Nokia N900 - an adventure RPG
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nephridium is offline nephridium
2010-08-21 , 14:42
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#16
Backup menu

sudo apt-get install backupmenu

I haven't had to do a restore yet, but Backupmenu's approach to backing up your N900 seems to be the best method. It can backup your root filesystem because it launches before N900 boots (simply keep the keyboard open when booting). It also backs up the eMMC partition. Should your N900 ever require a reflash a simple restore should get it to exactly the state you backed it up in. Thread: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=58633

I usually have it back up to the SD card and then copy the images over to my workstation.

SD Card content needs to be backed up through other means. One could simply scp /media/mmc1 contents to remote system or (probably faster) place the SD card into the other computer and copy over the contents.

Make sure you have enough space on your SD card for the backup: both images (root+eMMC) together take up around 2.3 GB. They can later be compressed e.g. using 7-zip. My current backup compresses to about 1.2 GB.

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Last edited by nephridium; 2010-08-26 at 02:43.
 

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