Nokia N900 Full Backup
 

Can someone explain to me how I can do a full full full backup of my n900? With my old n series I used to just use the Nokia Tool in PC Suite, but that doesn't work with this phone.

I like to keep a safe backup of everything on my PC incase anything were to happen. (touchwood!)

Re: Nokia N900 Full Backup
 

if you are willing to use the terminal then you can use rsync.
after becoming root and adding the devel repository you can get it with apt-get install rsync
then you could use:
rsync -avHl --exclude-from=/media/mmc1/sync_exclude / /media/mmc1/backup
where the sdcard is mounted a mmc1
sync_exclude would contain:
/sys
/proc
/media
/mnt
/home/user/MyDocs
/home/

that saved my *** a couple of times...

Re: Nokia N900 Full Backup
 

And is there a more user friendly way of doing this?

Re: Nokia N900 Full Backup
 

isn't there a backup function among the preinstalled apps? never used it though...

Re: Nokia N900 Full Backup
 

Yes there is. Never used it either so not sure if it is a full back up. And I think it backs up to the phone so you may need to use a SDHC card - save to SDHC card and back up from there. Not sure if you can save to PC.

Re: Nokia N900 Full Backup
 

I have used the backup app on the n900 but I am not sure that it backs everything up. It looks like it only backs up settings.

Re: Nokia N900 Full Backup
 

The built in backup application is pretty handy. Once messed my N900 up and had to reflash it, used the restore.

Restores:
- calendar
- repos in program manager
- contacts
- settings (wifi, whatever)
...

It does not restore the programms, but offers you to reinstall them from repositories, if available. You can also restore programs later if you need to add the repository they come from.

It did a pretty good job. The only thing I noticed was that merged contacts were unmerged again.

Best regards,
Corwin

Re: Nokia N900 Full Backup
 

@ corwin:
hm, better than nothing, i guess.

Re: Nokia N900 Full Backup
 

Just not to be misunderstood:
It dies not restore the programs but it does redownload and install them (you are asked if you want that and can check / uncheck them one by one.

So I think it is a pretty good solution, actually.

Night :)
Corwin

Re: Nokia N900 Full Backup
 

I don't think it backup application specific settings though.