Notices

Originally Posted by ikerrg

Regarding the use of backupmenu, reinob, if you don't use backupmenu, how do you make full backups of your rootfs? Or simply you don't do that?

Originally Posted by reinob

1. I don't make backups.
2. I answered on the recovery-console thread your question about how to do the backup by hand from the recovery console!

Originally Posted by ivyking

I have gotten backupmenu to start from u-boot without needing r&d mode nor repartitioning and without complex instructions this time..

so forget the complex instructions at
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=882

new instructions:
download the zip archive from http://ifile.it/d3ehfn2 (5.8 MB)
extract the contents of the archive to the first partition of your sdcard (fat32).
shutdown, then start again and let u-boot timer time out.

thats all !
can't get any easier

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notes (normally not needed):

1)backupmenu disk gets loaded as an initrd and backupmenu runs from the ram, so configuring network interfaces by modifying backupmenu directly is not possible.(well it is possible but it won't be saved when you reboot)
instead place a file called interfaces, containing your network configuration on the first partition of the sdcard, backupmenu will use that instead.

2)if you already have a boot.scr file on the first partition of your sdcard, rename the one from the archive to backupmenu.scr
u-boot will normally load your original boot.scr file, and when you want to run backupmenu, there are 2 solutions:

a)sane solution:
rename your boot.scr to something else and rename backupmenu.scr to boot.scr and start the device.

b)crazy solution:
interrupt the u-boot timer and write the following :

Code:

mmc init
fatload mmc1 0 0x80000400 backupmenu.scr
source 0x80000400

you will have to type that blazingly fast though if you haven't enabled r&d mode and set no-omap-wd r&d flag.

Originally Posted by mauron85

The link to download the uboot version of backumenu is dead.
Could please somebody reupload. Thanks

FYI: I'am using pali's U-boot and I would like to do full backup of N900 before installing CSSU-thumb.

Originally Posted by Fabry

Only two pages before this page: http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...postcount=1116

Originally Posted by nodevel

Also down. Could anyone re-upload it, please?

Thank you.