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2008-05-18 , 10:22
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Hi!

I have managed to compile a backup tool for OS2008. It is called DAR, short for Disk ARchive, this url can give you more info http://freshmeat.net/projects/dar/ (the main site isn't working or is it?).

This tool supports full/incremental backup, compression, piping etc etc, so this should be anything an IT hacker needs for his backup things .

HOWTO for DAR

A mini howto here for N8x0:

Backup with bz2 compression, 1 GB slice and backs up your mmc2 to your mmc1 (ie. external mmc2):
Code:
dar -m 256 -s 1G -y -R /media/mmc2 -c /media/mmc1/$(date -I)_backup -Z "*.gz" -Z "*.bz2" -Z "*.deb"
The file will be named with the current date + .dar.N where N is the slice number.

Restoring a backup:
Code:
dar -x backupfile.dar.1 -R /media/mmc2 -w
Replace backupfile.dar.1 with your own filename that was created with dar.



The files:
libdar64-4_2.3.5-1_armel.deb
dar_2.3.5-1_armel.deb

Install them in this order, ie. libdar first then dar itself.
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2008-05-18 , 13:27
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i hope someone port rdiff-backup instead
 
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2008-05-30 , 13:09
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DAR is great, but very difficult to me.
How can full backup all the data on my OS partition (ext2 in my internal SD) to my external SD?
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2008-05-30 , 16:36
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Code:
dar -m 256 -y -R /media/mmc2 -c /media/mmc1/$(date -I)_backup -Z "*.gz" -Z "*.bz2" -Z "*.deb"
This is what I used. It backs up the entire internal SD to external SD in to a single files, without slicing to smaller parts.
 

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2008-05-30 , 19:34
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Useful! Thanks a lot!
"Entire internal SD" means no matter how many partitions on it?. Mine have two : ext2 with cloned OS and FAT32 for data.
BTW can you post the restore command?
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umm well please tell me can i back up everything on my n800? specially apps/games on my device memory
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2008-06-01 , 10:10
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Originally Posted by italodance View Post
umm well please tell me can i back up everything on my n800? specially apps/games on my device memory
Sure, just put / as the source of backing up. It should also restore ok, but please put /mnt/initfs etc etc to your ignore options while backing up, like this:

Code:
dar -m 256 -P /mnt -P /media/mmc1 -s 1G -y -R / -c /media/mmc1/$(date -I)_backup -Z "*.gz" -Z "*.bz2" -Z "*.deb"
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If you cross compile 0xFFFF for arm, it can backup the rootfs into a file called rootfs.jffs2 which the flasher can then flash back.
 
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