[Request] Self unbricking
 

The idea would be to periodicly make backup copies of all the important stuff placing the backups in the big partition, keep like 2 or 3 old copies to be safe, and add an additional step before booting the OS, if an specific key combination is held, or if previous N boot attempts have not completed successfully, display a menu with the backups, with a time out of like 30 seconds if no key is pressed in the menu choosing the most recent backup, and then restore the backup.

The backups would only happen after a sucessfull boot up, so most of the times they should contain a version of the system that can boot.


Obviously effort should be taken to make this compatible with multiboots and other stuff that mess with the boot process.

Re: [Request] Self unbricking
 

i might go for this
btw, this should be in brainstorm

Re: [Request] Self unbricking
 

Hmm, like NT's last known good. Not a bad idea, though I'd vote for menu when keyboard is open. Isn't that what backup menu does, basically?

Re: [Request] Self unbricking
 

Backup menu doesn't work for me and some other guys when it comes to restore a rootfs from the n900 itself: it leaves the device in an unbootable state. Works when reflashing the rootfs from another machine, but only after having reflashed once the stock firmware.
Nobody seems to know why.
But I second the OP, I would greatly appreciate a self full backup and restore application.