Here is an N810, upgraded to Diablo + first Diablo update (did the 2nd update and many things got screwed, so, for the moment holding at Diablo+1st update)

The backup application does not work. After giving the name of the backup file (to be created) and selecting WHAT stuff to backup, the application just hangs in there..doing nothing.

I have read about the claws issue with backups. I do not have claws installed.

This backup problem has been already documented : here and in some other posts in this site; nevertheless the problem seems to persist.

Who is still experiencing problems with Backups in Diablo ?
What are the required procedures to make backup work ?
Will this be prevented in the future...with the "SSUs" ?

Your comments are appreciated, thanks in advance.

Pidgin maybe?

In the past actually, with the second (4.2008.36-5) SSU. Until you do upgrade there's a temporary workaround described here.

Might be something like https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3675 .

To exclude/find a similar problem like with claws you can check which files are in:
I would propose to post the results of the above here too so other people can comment.

HIH

Oh yes. Pidging is installed.... ?

Any comments on backups when Pidging is installed ?
(besides, as usual doing a search on the site)

Thanks in advance. Kind regards.

Here it is, the output of the commands above:

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Oct 2 02:55 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Jun 12 12:04 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 148 Aug 21 12:18 FBReader.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 180 Jun 3 05:51 alarmd.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 154 Oct 11 2007 bluez.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 333 May 29 03:01 browser-engine.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 424 Jul 15 16:39 canola2.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 487 Apr 24 03:25 default.conf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 223 Aug 22 11:39 erminig.conf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 171 Jan 31 2008 gizmo5.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 163 Jun 25 08:41 gpe.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 497 Jun 12 08:38 hildon-application-manager.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 169 Mar 13 2008 libmetalayer.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 165 Jun 4 06:42 maps.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 313 Jun 5 07:39 mediaplayer-engine.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 186 Jun 5 07:43 mediaplayer-ui.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 181 Jan 25 2008 mnotify.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 149 Jun 6 02:14 modest.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 153 Jul 6 04:57 mplayer.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 216 Jul 5 07:56 openssh.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 284 Jun 5 03:15 osso-addressbook.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 324 Apr 30 02:38 osso-bookmark.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 141 Mar 30 2007 osso-gps.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 382 Apr 10 2008 osso-lmarbles.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 180 Apr 10 2008 osso-mahjong.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 595 Apr 30 03:04 osso-rss-feed-reader.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 157 Apr 10 2008 osso_chess_backup.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 170 Jul 18 09:17 personal-menu.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 154 Dec 21 2007 pidgin.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 149 May 30 08:45 skype.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 147 May 14 12:41 tablet-browser-ui.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 173 May 7 05:49 videocenter.conf

Your comments are appreciated, TIA.

This link was already posted in this thread:
http://blogmich.dodosdojo.net/2008/0...ication-hangs/

If you don't care at all about backing-up pidgin then you can do the following.

Become root in your preferred way and type:
HIH

Thanks for the hint. I will do that from now on.

In the mean time, I took the long way. I did a manual backup on the memory card of my ~/.purple firectory (which has all the Pidging stuff) then, I uninstalled Pidging and tried the Backup utility. It worked !

So, seems the culprit so far was Pidging.

Thanks for all your help in this.

Now my remaining question is: Why are some applications "backup-able" and others are not ? what is the catch ? or... I should say what are the requirements for an application to be able to be backup'd with the normal maemo OS2008 backup utility ?

TIA.

In the latest SSU this problem has been corrected..
Check in bugzilla https://bugs.maemo.org/ by searchind there 'osso-backup' for more details on that and the other pending issue (symlinks).

or check Andre's comment in #3 for the link

edit: if you like vote on any you care
https://bugs.maemo.org/votes.cgi?act...ug&bug_id=3757
https://bugs.maemo.org/votes.cgi?act...ug&bug_id=3675
https://bugs.maemo.org/votes.cgi?act...ug&bug_id=3588