Short tutorial to backup full device with ubiboot (for console enthusiasts only ): - power down device - connect USB to device and PC (be it Linux or Windoze flavor) - wait for maintenance mode screen at this time you should notice also mounted drive(s) on PC, on Windoze only p1, on Linux all partitions (according to your ubiboot.conf) do NOT touch that drive under Windoze yet - open a console on PC and telnet/ssh into N9 - create some mount points mkdir /mnt/p1 mkdir /mnt/p2 mkdir /mnt/p3 mkdir /mnt/px #for other partitions you might have - mount MyDocs read-write, rootfs (p2) and home (p3) read-only mount -w -t vfat /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt/p1 mount -r -t ext4 /dev/mmcblk0p2 /mnt/p2 mount -r -t ext4 /dev/mmcblk0p3 /mnt/p3 - tar up rootfs and home on MyDocs cd /mnt/p2 tar -cvf /mnt/p1/p2.tar * cd /mnt/p3 tar -cvf /mnt/p1/p3.tar * you may also use tar -cvzf /mnt/p1/pX.tar.gz * for compressed tar, but it will take ages... - now unmount all umount /mnt/p1 umount /mnt/p2 umount /mnt/p3 - if you like, grab the tar files on N9/MyDocs NOW via the mounted drive from PC (do this first at this stage/unmounting as MyDocs seems mountable twice from PC and from N9, read access should not get you into trouble, but concurrent write access may do so, to the extent of fully broken file system) That's it. Full backup of device done under Windoze with the help of ubiboot maintenance mode. For Linux you may do it the same way or just directly mount and tar from PC. Thanks again to juiceme for providing such wonderful tool! Just thought I write it down, even all above is obvious. Maybe worth to add to wiki or Readme? -- Restore: - power down device - connect USB to device and PC (be it Linux or Windoze flavor) - wait for maintenance mode screen at this time you should notice also mounted drive(s) on PC, on Windoze only p1, on Linux all partitions (according to your ubiboot.conf) do NOT touch that drive under Windoze yet - open a console on PC and telnet/ssh into N9 - create some mount points mkdir /mnt/p1 mkdir /mnt/p2 mkdir /mnt/p3 mkdir /mnt/px #for other partitions you might have - mount MyDocs read-only, rootfs (p2) and home (p3) read-write mount -r -t vfat /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt/p1 mount -w -t ext4 /dev/mmcblk0p2 /mnt/p2 mount -w -t ext4 /dev/mmcblk0p3 /mnt/p3 - untar rootfs and home from MyDocs cd /mnt/p2 rm -fr * tar -xvf /mnt/p1/p2.tar cd /mnt/p3 rm -fr * tar -xvf /mnt/p1/p3.tar if you have compressed tar.gz, use tar -xvzf /mnt/p1/pX.tar.gz - now unmount all umount /mnt/p1 umount /mnt/p2 umount /mnt/p3 If you need to copy the backup from PC back to N9 first, then do it as first step before mounting. Disclaimer: verified the restore up to now only to copy Harmattan root from p2 to p5 and it worked. So I am convinced, this will work.