Guide For Doing Backups on A780, E680, E680i

[daniel.santos]

Hello,

I'm tyring to fine tune a newbie-friendly guide for doing backups. FWDump seems to be the best way to backup the firmware by far, but I'm curious if anybody is aware of a newbie-friendly app that does a backup of your flash disks (including the /ezxlocal mount point). You can review this guide at wiki.openezx.org/Guides::Backups and please do submit feedback, corrections, etc. Or just correct it if you prefer.

Daniel

[gewe]

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You can review this guide at wiki.openezx.org/Guides::Backups and please do submit feedback, corrections, etc. Or just correct it if you prefer.

Daniel

I tried the netcat method to make a backup. Backing up the SD card gives no problem. Backing up the rest, using

cd /; tar --preserve --same-owner --atime-preserve --exclude ram/proc --exclude mmc/mmca1 -cv * | nc 192.168.1.1 2030

as shown in the OpenEZX wiki, stops at the directory "var" and leaves me with a corrupted tar.gz file. Even excluding var from the tar operation does not solve this problem.

How can I create a full backup?

And a bit OT: I read that on European A780's you can not install mpkg's. I need to install DumpFW, to make a backup of the exzlocal.
Don't say "upgrade to firmware version 76", because I want to make a backup in case the upgrade to 76 fails. Is this a deadlock or not?

[swifty]

>And a bit OT: I read that on European A780's you can not install mpkg's.
>I need to install DumpFW, to make a backup of the exzlocal.

i have an european A780 (74 version) and can install mpkg´s.
all you need is 1. linloader and 2. mpkg-installer.

i am not shure if your backuped data will be funktionaly restored in ´76.
i have read somewhere(here) that the database format (contacts/sms/calendarevents) is not compatible with ´74 firmware.

hth

[gewe]

i am not shure if your backuped data will be funktionaly restored in ´76.
i have read somewhere(here) that the database format (contacts/sms/calendarevents) is not compatible with ´74 firmware.

hth

That would be strange. I read (somewhere on this forum) that it is possible to flash the 76 firmware, without losing data and settings.

[yaworski]

It is possible but may cause some strange errors. For example after flashing to 76 firmware, I couldn't create new data network profiles (those old ones were corrupted). I had to do master clear from the phone to fix such issues.

[gewe]

Well, that might make it less usefull to upgrade.

Anyway, back to my original question:
I tried the netcat method to make a backup. Backing up the SD card gives no problem. Backing up the rest, using

cd /; tar --preserve --same-owner --atime-preserve --exclude ram/proc --exclude mmc/mmca1 -cv * | nc 192.168.1.1 2030

as shown in the OpenEZX wiki, stops at the directory "var" and leaves me with a corrupted tar.gz file. Even excluding var from the tar operation does not solve this problem. The backup stops at the last directory before var (usr/something)

How can I create a full backup (also nice to have without upgrading)?