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That's what I figured, but thought I'd ask just in case...

I'm guessing you've tried R&D?

Just installed ans went for a reboot with keyboard out,
nokia screen came up with loading message above,
screen went black and think it counted 1,2 then came up with an error saying that some packages we're missing.
pressed a key to continue.
came up error again then it went onto the menu with waiting for input. i quit and went back to booting as normal with no problems.
is this normal to show the errors whilst loading?
i tried apt-get -f install and got this

/home/user # apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 15 not upgraded.
/home/user # apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
hildon-application-manager hildon-control-panel hildon-desktop hildon-home hildon-status-menu
libsdl-mixer1.2 libvte-common libvte4 modest osso-applet-display osso-applet-notificationlight
The following packages will be upgraded:
cal-home-widget fmms libliqbase1 python-protobuf
4 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded.
Need to get 589kB of archives.
After this operation, 160kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y

is this normal???

Sorry if this question has been answered already on this long thread. I just ordered my second N900 and I am wondering if I can use this utility to bring it up to the state of my current one. These are the steps I am envisioning for making my second N900 a clone of my first one:

On the old N900:

• Install BackupMenu.
• Perform a backup to the SD card.

On the new N900:

• Install all updates and bring it up to PR1.3.
• Place SD card on with the old N900 backup in it.
• Install BackupMenu
• Restore the image.

Is this correct? Am I missing something? Thanks for your help.

Yes, it was no different. But, Nitdroid still works, so I wonder -- if I'm able to boot MeeGo and able to mount rootfs and everything, could I set up a chroot environment and run Maemo applications (like, for example, apt-get install backupmenu). Hmmm. I might have to give it a try later tonight.

Until then I'm using my trusty old Nokia 6682. I forgot how liberating it feels to have a phone with a battery that lasts several days at a time.

@rm42 that's exactly what I did, and worked perfectly. You can clone your device with no trouble. Only remember that backupmenu doesn't restore the same kernel of the first machine, so say you have power kernel on N900 #1, after restoring everything on your N900 #2 you will have to apt-get install --reinstall kernel-power kernel-power-modules kernel-power-flasher.
Reinstall because the packages are really in installed state (from #1) but the kernel, which is in a separate partition, is still stock.

@hawaii: It's definitely possible to do the modification - BM V2 works at the file-level, so it'd be as simple as duplicating the optfs-backup code and splitting it into opt and home-backup codes; changing the backup dir from the root of the partition to each respective folder.

@x-lette:
Thank you.

@stlpaul, first post:
You could install a custom rootfs-image, but that would be somewhat destructive - It'd destroy your rootfs and programs. If you were faced with a choice between that and flashing the -emmc-, however(due to corruption in the optfs)...

@corduroysack:
Yea, the errors are for some files I didn't know I didn't need. I just haven't had the inclination to release a fixed version yet. Got other stuff I'm doing.

@rm42:
On the new n900, I'd just:
1. flash to PR1.3
2. Install rootsh/backupmenu
3. reboot, restore stuff
4. boot into maemo, restore ketnel(like debernardis said).
No need to worry about on-device updates; all we really need is to update the firmware on the various transmitters, and have a working platform to run BM on.

I'd recommend you try with the MeeGo initrd images - you can mount the internal storage on a workstation and copy the data out.

Thanks, I found the wiki page and will see what I can get out of it before going full-steam-ahead with meego on my SD card.

http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/N900/Using_Rescue_Initrd

(sorry for the offtopic stuff - consider it an example of why to use backupmenu before problems occur )

hi guys,

i am new on the full backup sector!
can you tell me if backupmenu and there depend packages have any effect to cpu usage or battery life in normal use mod?

after restoring i have do reinstall the kernel, right?

cheers