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cheers fella that's music to my ears

i'm very new to this and haven't read through the whole thing, so sorry if this has been explained already, but how do i actually restore a backup?

Also, i don't have this installed yet, i just set about downloading it when the 'warning warning warning .... may cause serious permanent hardware damage to the device' etc etc flashed up, which has put me off installing. Is the worst likely to happen, or is it if i mess around with it somehow?

To restore, fire the n900 with slide open, select the restore option, select the rootfs and optfs files you want to restore, wait, done.
For your second question, no damage on my device.

likewise. this app was much needed and our prayers were answered.

its very simple, safe and stable to use.

youll be glad you did

thanks guys. one last question then, is the version in devels the correct new one, overriding the old defunct version?

yep. V 0.62 is the right one.

and this backs up everything? installed ovi paid apps, angry birds scores etc?
and i assume, from the first post, i should copy mydocs to the pc as a backup as the app doesn't cover that?

It backs up the rootfs and opt, but not your home MyDocs partition (from what I could see). But if you have a linux machine you can go into USB mass storage mode and you can see your whole home partition, including the MyDocs.

I'm not sure about on Windows, as I haven't tested.

I think the stock Backup program might do the apps and stuff for you.
Try this and see if the relevant files are saved for you:
1. From the app menu start Backup.
2. Do a full backup (or you can miss bookmarks etc, if they aren't of interest to you).
3. Try opening the various backup zip files from filebox, or you can use your PC to browse to it, and see if it has backed up your game save files.

What are the risks, specifically, with installing this program for backup? I skimmed through the pages of this thread but still don't know why there is a huge "Warning" prior to installation.

Also, does 'backing up' everything flash your phone when you save the back-up file? How do we get this file from internal storage, say, if the phone is bricked?

Home is backed up. MyDocs is not.
When you backup MyDocs by copying it elsewhere, don't forget the hidden files:
.documents
.images
.sounds
.videos
and maybe a bunch of others.ùù