Re: Help needed to do a backup
 

@nieldk mmcblk0p28 on N9? you smoking weeds? just do dd dump yourself before writing more answers please ;)

Re: Help needed to do a backup
 

I have dd dump from the very start, and also, it wouldnt be a dd dump if the size was not equal to the actual partition - it is a RAW partition copy dude, read up on it ;)

Re: Help needed to do a backup
 

please do sudo dd if=/dev/mmcblk0p28 of=/media/sdcard/yoursdcard/image.bin now and tell it's size :)

Re: Help needed to do a backup
 

Just a wild guess and to double check:
The filesystem on your SD card does not have a 4GB file size limit, like FAT32?
That would explain why you only get a file of ~4GB size.

Re: Help needed to do a backup
 

That could be a reason for @coderus filesize, yes.

@coderus, I do a dd after every update, and you are wrong!

I DARE you to do a dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/mmcblk0p28 ;)
then dd if=yourbackup.bin if=/dev/mmcblk0p28
If your filesize is 4Gb , youre probably screwed ;)

Re: Help needed to do a backup
 

hm, that explain everything. Thanks D:

Re: Help needed to do a backup
 

;)
You should create a new backup

Re: Help needed to do a backup
 

I have not enough storage to do that.

So, is there any way to restore this broken partition like recreating fs without using raw dump?

Re: Help needed to do a backup
 

yes, create a tar.gz of the content.
Then you can untar that for restoring.

that would probably fit within 4Gb size

or, you could create the dd through ssh tunnelling to your PC

Re: Help needed to do a backup
 

Or, you could connect USB networking and pipe it thru netcat, a lot faster than thru ssh via WLAN :)