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Re: How to backup

 

Thanks. I hadn't got any time to test it yet, but I'm a little bit nervous. This is the third time I set up everything on my phone, then flash is and I can't use it anymore. :) I hope it'll be work this time. :)

> Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 16:07:22 +0100
> From: guru@xxxxxxxxxxx
> To: ubuntu-phone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-phone] How to backup
> 
> El día Friday, March 25, 2016 a las 03:51:42PM +0100, Heroldich Robin escribió:
> 
> > I get a lot of permission denied error messages, but the "new" (restored) apps appear without icon, and they don't do anything. After a reboot, they disappear too.
> > 
> 
> Well, we need sudo and two terminals: in the 1st run:
> 
> $ ssh phablet@192.168.0.41
> phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ sudo mkfifo fifo
> phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ ls -l fifo
> prw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 25 15:59 fifo
> phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ sudo chmod 0666 fifo
> phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ ls -l fifo
> prw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Mar 25 15:59 fifo
> phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ cd /
> phablet@ubuntu-phablet:/$ sudo tar -xzf ~phablet/fifo
> 
> this will just hang because tar is reading from the FIFO and waits that
> data comes in;
> 
> now run in another terminal:
> 
> $ ssh phablet@192.168.0.41  "cat > fifo" < userdata.tar.gz
> 
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