I found an easy way of backing up your mmc drive ext2 partition when

booting from the card .

I use nero backitup and it not only backs up everything but it also

compresses the file to make a nice 64mb file .

I have tried this with os2006 and os2007he and so far

it works perfectly.

All of my installed programs and even MBR can be restored and backedup

in a matter of 4 to 6 minites.

The settings I used for backup are normal compression , dont verify , dont

assign drive letter.

on restore I used restore MBR


On the os 2006 with canola mplayer and tons of games,files and software

it took only 4min for a complete backup .

On os2007se it took around 6min for some reason.

Whats really nice is the files on regular compression are 64mb and would

be even smaller on higher compression.

This is nice cause people can share their backup file with others

I hope this wasnt posted somewhere before I couldnt find any reference anywhere.

Do you need Nero on a linux box to find the ext2 partition on the MMC card?

I think I understand what you are saying, but it sounds like you are reading off the MMC card using a card reader, compressing and burning a disk ( or .iso file)

no nero finds the ext2 partition in windows

you just select it and you can back it up to your local drive as a 64mb

file .

then later you can restore that image to any drive or mmc card

and it recreates the file system and all the files even the mbr

I have 2 backups a os2006 version and a 0s2007he version

that all I have to do is select the one I want point to the mmc

I want it extracted to then hit restore .

Takes all of 6min to have a fully functioning os .

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Here it is in windows XP on nero

Hey memturbo.. a few questions:

1) Do you have boot from MMC ??
2) How big is your MMC ??
3) When you restored back were all the apps read as 'installed' ??

yes
2gb
yes

Like I said the 2 backups I made 0s2006 and 0s2007 are both 66.4mb

and uncompressed are 823.65mb that includes a byte by byte cloning
of the ex2 partition

My backup is only 16.xMB (with a 2GB card), but I didn't have any additional mp3's or avi's on card.
Is the size reasonable? Or maybe I just missed some thing?

Thanks.
Regards,
Alex.

could you explain how in nero burn you did it? When I go in it says the backup is going to be 1.89 GB. I am missing something here.

not nero burn nero backitup

whatever the size of your ex2 partition is the size of the uncompressed backup

but nero compresses it .

For me my ext2 partition was 823.65mb but nero says the compressed size
is 169.34mb

but when I go and look at the actual file nero made its only 64.4mb


You dont burn the image to disk at all

you simply restore it using nero backitup

Find the partition you want to use and use backitup to restore

I have nero backitup version 1.2.0.50

And I can't seem to do a Drive backup of my MMC plugged into a usb reader.

Its doesn't "see" the partitions, just recognises the MMC as 967mb unallocated space.

What am I doing wrong?