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Exactly!
This post should be referenced in OP (any mod, please do so?).
It may help ppl lk spdnwill, but also others having fbcon enabled (like me ).

Guys, I am blushing!
Please ping me if it does indeed get linked from the OP: I will need to edit out my comments directed to speedonwilliam as those would be inappropriate out of context.

My N900 was borked last night through relying on BackupMenu.

I have about 5 backups and went to restore the original in order to try and isolate a battery drain problem I have.

I selected both RootFS and OptFS (both tar'd) but I did not see RootFS installed. OptFS took about 8 mins.

Through BackupMenu's reset, N900 went into boot loop. Upon normal reset, blue indicator light stays on, doesn't get past Nokia logo, dies after a time out.

BackupMenu still works slightly. The screen doesn't update properly in the boot menu but I can get to the main BackupMenu menu after a couple of file not found errors. After about 10s, the N900 switches off.
I think I've tried all the options anyway. Restoring says "Cannot mount the eMMC". FSCK can't copy the files needed.

USB is loose but I thought I'd ask if anyone had any ideas before trying to solder things smaller than pinheads...

That can happen if your kernel versions don't match. Happened to me too: I ended up having to reflash, make sure I installed a matching kernel, and then restore with BackupMenu.

You may be in a spot of bother if your USB port is broken. You can look for example here and here to see what you can do. In fact the whole thread might be useful.

my n900 is getting stuck on chroot I have 21.2011.38-1Tmaemo9.1+thumb0 with backupmenu 1.2.0-1 installed.
do I need to downgrade my initrd-progs? or upgrade backupmenu to latest devel package? both?

well I downgraded initrd-progs and backupmenu worked again.
after restoring rootfs I have 74.1m free space on rootfs vs 88.5m free on system I made backup of what gives? I have seen something regarding post 571 to 579 about compression and taking up less space ?

There is a manual fix for BackupMenu described somewhere earlier in this thread to make it work with the latest initrd-progs. It has not made its way to extras-devel yet AFAIK.

You are getting old Pichlo
Some great guy already uploaded it to extras-devel, and you even thanked him for that : http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...postcount=1257

Just getting? Thanks for the compliment

EDIT: I even see my thanks on that psot. I really need some memory refresh treatment.

went back and read if I got this correct the backupmenu 1.2.0-2 in cssu extra devel is updated to work. correct me if I am wrong.

http://maemo.org/packages/package_in...pmenu/1.2.0-2/

http://repository.maemo.org/extras-d....2.0-2_all.deb
it works though I am wondering if anybody knows why when I restored a backup to my second system I had less free space in rootfs.
I used compressed tarballs of rootfs and optfs instead of regular tarballs.

Is anyone maintaining backupmenu anymore?
one thing I would like added is maybe md5sum check of tar ball generated and send the tarball to MyDocs first if space is available then microsd checking the md5sum to see if they match.

had a problem with some crappy microsd cards recently, worked fine at first but somehow went bad. took me while to catch on but I managed to brick my latest n900 3-4 times and had lots of fun flashing them to run again.