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-   -   [Announce] BackupMenu - OS backup & restore | New version - Jul 9th(v1.1) (https://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=63975)

debernardis 2010-12-12 14:27
Re: [Announce] BackupMenu V2 - OS backup & restore
 
My sig is old... now running at stock speed :(

debernardis 2010-12-12 20:05
Re: [Announce] BackupMenu V2 - OS backup & restore
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by joerg_rw (Post 895421)
You know the wear won't heal?
The above statement sounds like complaining about your hurting tooth and saying "but meanwhile I use a toothbrush regularly"

/j
Well, I'm so glad you're wishing me good luck, aren't you ;)
I've still some other things to try, including full reflashing of root and eMMC. Hope the problem is only functional not hardware-related.

RobbieThe1st 2010-12-13 01:49
Re: [Announce] BackupMenu V2 - OS backup & restore
 
@debernardis:
I'd suggest connecting via ssh, go in and format the optfs partition. You could also try using DD to zero it first; try to make the eMMC controller mark any bad blocks as bad and work around them.
Once you've got a fresh ext filesystem on there, you can run BM's restore mode to restore your image via tar.

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In other news, I may have found the reason some people cannot use BM and just get the bootmenu-n900 menu - I got an E-Mail from someone who had this problem and they found out that /usr/bin/find (which is used by bootmenu to find all .item files) was replaced with a symlink to the optified GNU version. As /opt/ isn't accessable at that time, all find calls would fail, backupmenu wouldn't be run, and only the default bootmenu prompt would be shown.

hawaii 2010-12-13 02:49
Re: [Announce] BackupMenu V2 - OS backup & restore
 
I will check if that's my issue and report back.

Was there ever any work done on making it compatible with multiboot? I've been using it, since it provides a clean shell on boot, if required.

EDIT: Yes. It works, after I removed the symlink and dropped the full gnu-find binary into /usr/bin/ - please send a thank you to the kind chap that advise this. I had a feeling it was an out-of-place binary, but didn't have time to track it down.

x-lette 2010-12-13 14:51
Re: [Announce] BackupMenu V2 - OS backup & restore
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by joerg_rw (Post 894997)
e, e, for extras,erase is suboptimal! you easily bounce 'e' key. Make that anything different. I'd even suggest to have only UPERCASE command keys in extras menu, so you need to hold shift to 'confirm' you meant to do that.
:D Look here and then here and here for answers :rolleyes:

RobbieThe1st 2010-12-15 01:16
Re: [Announce] BackupMenu V2 - OS backup & restore
 
Just so you guys know, I'm not going to be developing for a little bit - The right ~250px of my n900's screen is cracked and full of nice colorful lines, and I'm not going to be doing a bunch of work until I get a replacement installed. Also, I've got some non-maemo projects I'm working on...

Tigerite 2010-12-15 09:01
Re: [Announce] BackupMenu V2 - OS backup & restore
 
Sorry to hear that, Robbie. I'm still working on getting the ubi image generation done, but my free time is short at the moment, I'm afraid :(

ndi 2010-12-15 10:36
Re: [Announce] BackupMenu V2 - OS backup & restore
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by RobbieThe1st (Post 897061)
Just so you guys know, I'm not going to be developing for a little bit - The right ~250px of my n900's screen is cracked and full of nice colorful lines, and I'm not going to be doing a bunch of work until I get a replacement installed. Also, I've got some non-maemo projects I'm working on...
When inside Maemo, X11vnc is a good way to escape the screen and keyboard. No help when the script is running, though.

lordnibbla 2010-12-21 22:30
Re: [Testers needed] BackupMenu V2 - OS backup & restore
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by RobbieThe1st (Post 844048)
Well, you can -try- to restore it the old way, but you may end up with an unbootable device that needs a reflash.

Or, you can try to mount the images. The optfs is just a EXT2 image; it can be mounted easily on any linux system with a couple commands(mount -o loopback..... for a start)
The RootFS is a bit harder; I haven't done it myself. But, your customizations should mostly be in the OptFS, so...

Well, if anyone can help me, I had made a backup on v1 before I sent my n900 in for warranty repair , and when I got it back the app was updated to v2.
Being that I could not use the old backups with the new version, I have already installed everything that I wanted and had previously installed.
I just cant figure out how to mount the images I've already got. I want to get some snes and n64 saves off of them. Can someone help me? I'm using a linux live disc: knoppix.

kureyon 2010-12-22 02:59
Re: [Testers needed] BackupMenu V2 - OS backup & restore
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by lordnibbla (Post 901665)
I just cant figure out how to mount the images I've already got.
As root:

Code:
mkdir /tmp/n900
mount -o ro,loop /path/to/20101107-backup-optfs.img /tmp/n900/


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