Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] How to backup everything on SBT?

2012-07-05 Thread aubuti
diego wrote: In my experience, and I have used it many times, when you hold the buttom 10 seconds, it starts factory reset. Does nothing else, even if you press it longer. But I might be wrong... That's it, pretty much. A short press just does a reboot, and a press-and-hold in the range of

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] How to backup everything on SBT?

2012-06-28 Thread erland
diego wrote: However, will this enable you to restore everything, if for some reason, the update servers or whatever is on the internet are not accessible through the touch? In particular, Firmware / Kernel, Installed Apps...? Custom firmware can be installed by connecting the Touch a LMS

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] How to backup everything on SBT?

2012-06-27 Thread diego
JohnSwenson wrote: None of the usual backup methods are going to work properly for the Touch as far as a COMPLETE full exactly as it normally is state ... a normal backup procedure is NOT going to do that. John S. Thanks indeed John for this very complete explanation! Now... I might be a

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] How to backup everything on SBT?

2012-06-27 Thread aubuti
diego wrote: ... I am looking for a way to back up this configuration to be able to restore it, also, if one day Triode's Test-Kernel #11 or Beta 7.8.0 are maybe not available online anymore. I haven't used the EDO software so I don't know how it is packaged, but the simpler and more

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] How to backup everything on SBT?

2012-06-27 Thread Mnyb
aubuti wrote: I haven't used the EDO software so I don't know how it is packaged, but the simpler and more effective solution for backing up beta 7.8.0 is to download the 7.8.0 package and then save it and back it up with all the other files on your pc. Back when I was regularly running

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] How to backup everything on SBT?

2012-06-27 Thread diego
aubuti wrote: I haven't used the EDO software so I don't know how it is packaged, but the simpler and more effective solution for backing up beta 7.8.0 is to download the 7.8.0 package and then save it and back it up with all the other files on your pc. Back when I was regularly running

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] How to backup everything on SBT?

2012-06-26 Thread diego
aubuti wrote: Backing up everything seems like overkill to me (especially because released firmware is available from http://update.slimdevices.com/update/firmware/). But if you really want to back up everything the most straightforward way is to enable remote login on the SBT and then copy

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] How to backup everything on SBT?

2012-06-26 Thread JohnSwenson
None of the usual backup methods are going to work properly for the Touch as far as a COMPLETE full exactly as it normally is state. The reason for this is that the Touch uses a union file system. In a union filesystem there are multiple physical file systems that are combined at run time to

[SlimDevices: Touch] How to backup everything on SBT?

2012-06-24 Thread diego
Hi there! Is there a way to back up just everything of a SBT? I mean: To back up the entire configuration, Kernel, Firmware... just everything that is on its internal Hard Disk (some flash memory). On a normal computer, I would boot it from a stick and back up the hard disk with all its

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] How to backup everything on SBT?

2012-06-24 Thread aubuti
Backing up everything seems like overkill to me (especially because released firmware is available from http://update.slimdevices.com/update/firmware/). But if you really want to back up everything the most straightforward way is to enable remote login on the SBT and then copy all the files over