I have just done a fresh install of Cacko on my C3100 ( to clean up some issues caused by the Automounter package).

I wanted to make a backup, so that in the future if something messes up, I can just restore the backup, without having to reinstall everything.

However backup ( backing up to an Ext3 SD card) froze up on my several times. ( No applications were running)

It froze up at different stages:
- once it froze up when I started ( qtopia desktop visible, but locked up)
- once it froze up after the backup was complete ( starting qtopia screen visible, locked up)

I have always rebooted ( actually resetted ) - and now the last two backups ( I have not changed anything on the C3100 during the 4 backups ) went fine.

Anyone any idea why that is? Is backup/restore overall a somewhat sensitive program, which sometimes lockes up? Or is there anything I need to take care off before doing a backup?

Thanks for any ideas...

i tried it same here. backup and restore problems

i kinda nailed it down to Mieanies automounter in the sharp rom

this could have the same effect on cacko. that is why i uninstalled it but was too time consuming to debug for me. I left it as is

im gona talk to meanie about the automounter not allowing backups and restore.

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problem solved.

if your using meanies x/qt jumbo crams for c1000


before doing any backup or restore operations.




to turn it back on by running

If you remount the cramfs images under /mnt instead of /home then you can backup without restarting automounter. The updated installer for the cramfs will now create mount points under /mnt instead of /home, however, those who already have mount points under /home will need to move them to /mnt manually.

Just unmount the cramfs images, ie run


or


if you are running the newer clamshell devices with the automounter package, or unmount the cramfs images manually




move the mount points to /mnt



now edit /etc/fstab and change references to /home to /mnt for the cramfs images

Now, just remount them from their new location.
If you have automounter installed, just run


or


Finally, you can just create symlinks from the old mount locations to the new ones, ie



or just re-run the xqt setup scripts

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