Complete Backup Of A Pdaxrom C3000 System?

[maystorm]

Lately I've installed pdaXrom 1.1.0beta1 on my C3000. What a fantastic ROM! The feature set is overwhelming. It turns your Zaurus into a real Linux-box as if you were sitting in front of your desktop PC. I even managed to compile my first apps after I've mounted the "zgcc-3.4.5.img" development image. A big kudos to the developers and maintainers!

In the meantime I've installed a number of packages and have done a lot of tweaks and settings changes. Although I'm very impressed by pdaXrom I also would like to try out other ROM's since I'm curious what they have to offer. However, in case I want to return to pdaXrom (which is more than likely) I don't want to lose all my personal customizations and don't want to re-do all the tweaks and changes in settings.

Therefore my question: What is the right procedure to make a complete backup of a padXrom system incl. all packages and personal settings? As far as I've learned this would include following steps:

1. Backing up the NAND of my C3000 to CF card, and

2. Backing up the whole /dev/hda1 partition of the microdrive (which I would do via network).

Could somebody confirm these two steps?

What I'm not sure about at the moment is the right procedure to restore these when I switch back from another ROM like OZ or Cacko. Could somebody explain?

TIA!

[kara_ci]

Lately I've installed pdaXrom 1.1.0beta1 on my C3000. What a fantastic ROM! The feature set is overwhelming. It turns your Zaurus into a real Linux-box as if you were sitting in front of your desktop PC. I even managed to compile my first apps after I've mounted the "zgcc-3.4.5.img" development image. A big kudos to the developers and maintainers!

In the meantime I've installed a number of packages and have done a lot of tweaks and settings changes. Although I'm very impressed by pdaXrom I also would like to try out other ROM's since I'm curious what they have to offer. However, in case I want to return to pdaXrom (which is more than likely) I don't want to lose all my personal customizations and don't want to re-do all the tweaks and changes in settings.

Therefore my question: What is the right procedure to make a complete backup of a padXrom system incl. all packages and personal settings? As far as I've learned this would include following steps:

1. Backing up the NAND of my C3000 to CF card, and

2. Backing up the whole /dev/hda1 partition of the microdrive (which I would do via network).

Could somebody confirm these two steps?

What I'm not sure about at the moment is the right procedure to restore these when I switch back from another ROM like OZ or Cacko. Could somebody explain?

TIA!
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Hello, i would like to do the same things.  
so i'm also interested by this question

[miskinis]

Hi,

I'm also interested in this, although my configuration ( SL-6000 ) has no hard drive,
so an image copy of my SD as well as a NAND restore should be sufficient.

Many (and I mean many) years ago, I spent quite a bit of time researching a
complete backup solution for a couple LINUX laptops.  I ended up needing to
create a minimal boot system with the restoration software (I believe I ended up
using taper) as well as tar, a kernel with ZIP disk support, etc..

I suppose I would be in the exact same boat as the C-XXXX users if I ever purchased
a CF microdrive, but I have never toyed with the clamshells or multiple-boot configurations
on the SL-6000.  I suppose a method to NAND-restore a minimal system, that could
perhaps read from SD or CF and restore to the HD would be cool, then after the HD
was restored, a NAND-restore of the full system could be performed.  Of course the
backup-side of things to backup a HD to multiple CF/SD cards would be needed as
well.  Just some thoughts...  John