A few days ago, I submitted a bug because os2006 doesn’t backup/restore my /etc/apt/sources.list (the list of application repositories I typed in). Paul Klapperich suggested the custom backup trick to add your own files and dirs to what gets backed up and restored. According to Jakub Pavelek (of nokia), /etc/apt/sources.list is backed up on os2007 on the n800, but this info still might help somebody if there’s anything else they want backed up.
I created a file called my-custom-backup.conf based on this and I think others might appreciate having it, since it fixes 2 bugs or adds 2 features (depending on how you look at it) to os2006 – it backs up the application repository list and all archived email (among other things – see below).
It saves the following files/dirs for the following reasons:
/etc/apt/sources.list list of the application repositories /media/mmc1/.archive this is where the email program stores “archived” emails – I lost a bunch of these when I reformatted my rsmmc card to have 512 byte blocks for maemo mapper a while back because I didn’t check for hidden files on the card /etc/others-menu applications.menu is already saved in the default backup configuration, but I thought I should save this, too /etc/hosts I manually enter the ip addresses of my other computers in here so I can scp from the 770 with a machine name instead of an ip address /home/user/.ssh this is so I don’t have to share my keys across my machines after every os update on my internet tablet, and also so I can have my usual login name on my other machines in .ssh/config – the default for ssh is to use the current username, which is “user” on the 770 /home/user/.bash_profile I got used to the alias ll=”ls -l” on redhat a few years back and can’t get by without it /home/user/.bash_history /home/user/.ash_history /home/user/bin for a couple scripts I wrote /home/user/keys the ssh keys for the other machines /media/mmc1/.albums this is for obscura, which is already looking really good /home/user/.thumbnails I think this is where file manager stores the image thumbnails – might as well back it up /etc/…/my-custom-backup.conf this config file, of courseInstructions:
download my-custom-backup.conf, edit it to suit your needs, get root & xterm on your 770, and as root, copy my-custom-backup.conf to /etc/osso-backup/applications/ and backup to your heart’s delight. I tested restoring with this custom backup file and it didnt’ brick my device, which I look at as a success.
