I broke my N9 screen - 3 foot drop on edge of screen. So I bought a new one and plan to send the old one for repair. I would like to get a backup of my contacts/settings though. I can still ssh into my N9 and file recovery isn't an issue. However, contacts are more of a pain.

I'd like to initiate a backup on the broken N9 and copy the backup to the new one. Unfortunately using the touchscreen/screen isn't an option. Does anyone know a command line way to initiate the backup program? I'm sure there should be one.

TL;DR : Do you know a command to run the backup program from the CLI?

use search on this forum, you can use the phone ui through vnc. (harder way is to start backup through dbus messages)

Thanks! I think that should do it. I thought of netview but that doesn't help as I don't have netview running. x11vnc seems to run from the CLI, which is perfect.

Also, I did search for terms like n9 CLI recovery/ssh x forwarding etc with no useful results. Perhaps a more rigorous search is in order next time. Also, I might have been biased towards looking for command line way to do it. You can't search for things you don't think of