Save/Restore Community Development

[rwhitby]

Originally Posted by ryanov

In case this helps anyone, I'm just now running Save/Restore from the command line. With a little bit of shell scripting, it's a breeze to run even without the GUI. I ran it on the command line, but this script would work too:

#!/bin/sh
cd /var/svc/org.webosinternals/saverestore
ls -1 | while read save; do
sh ./$save
done

...which just runs every script in there. It's humming right along now. I'm really going to miss a phone where disaster is averted with some simple knowledge. :-\

Good to see you using the worst case disaster recovery support exactly as intended.

-- Rod

[jcgreenfield]

Originally Posted by John Steffes

To whom it may concern,

If someone has the time to create a script that backup/restore can use to backup the following file:
/media/cryptofs/apps/usr/palm/application/com.motionapps.app.classic/javascript/support_info.js

This file contains the license key and if backed up and restored will allow someone to doctor their device many times and restore their key back...

Updated to a new script provided by Adam tested on PixiPlus/PrePlus/Pre2/Pre3. Works to backup the license key.

Thank you so much for pointing me in the right direction to be able to use the program that I already bought on my new pre. I just have one question. I am no a great hacker or programer, but I understand enough to be dangerous. I had used save and restore to backup my old pre and copied the entire file system over to my computer before I brought my new one into verizon to activate it. Now that the new one is acitvated I can not get into my old one. I am not sure what to do with this file that I down loaded to get the key on my new pre. What I think is to take my old restorebackup directory and place it in the new pre and also put the downloaded file into the restorebackup directory now moved onto my new pre and then do a total resore?

I am sorry for bothering you on what may me something I should know, but I just do not do this often. I know you sent me this info a while ago, but I am one of those people stuck up in the northeast and this has been my first time that I have had to get on a computer and try this. Again, thank you so much.

[mudd1]

I'm sorry if this has been asked before but I'm dearly missing tasks and memos. Export would totally be enough as I'm just searching for a way to get these things off my device.

This seems like a fantastic project!

[Tenchi-Man]

Is it possible to support MojoWhatsup?

http://forums.webosnation.com/webos-...ml#post3355606

[jasontaylor7]

I need to backup my pre. There are 91 pages of posts here, with each page consisting of several posts, but I don't have time to read them all. To anyone who already has, what is the present way to backup the palm pre? Which posts are relevant. Can someone who is following this post hyperlinks to the actual posts I need to use to back up the palm pre today? Thanks.

Jason

[Audemars02]

Originally Posted by jasontaylor7

I need to backup my pre. There are 91 pages of posts here, with each page consisting of several posts, but I don't have time to read them all. To anyone who already has, what is the present way to backup the palm pre? Which posts are relevant. Can someone who is following this post hyperlinks to the actual posts I need to use to back up the palm pre today? Thanks.

Jason

Check out my article on backing up and restoring your webOS devices.. The Definitive Guide to Backing up and Restoring your webOS Device | webOS Nation

[bethel95]

Originally Posted by jasontaylor7

Can someone who is following this post hyperlinks to the actual posts I need to use to back up the palm pre today?

If you're backing up to a Windows computer, this forum thread gives instructions how to automate backup to your PC of more than just the app data files; note that it links to the Definitive Guide article on Preware, too.

[bethel95]

Originally Posted by Audemars02

I am the creator of the PalmSpot entry “webOS Does, and Does, and Does Some More”, writes Save/Restore scripts and helps manage the script feed, and now writes webOS Nation's Tip of the Day

Will we ever see any more S/R updates with new scripts? I know for a fact that several scripts were submitted last Dec that have never seen the light of day.

If that's just been a back burner project, I understand--just curious (and hopeful).

[jrronimo]

Originally Posted by ryanov

In case this helps anyone, I'm just now running Save/Restore from the command line. With a little bit of shell scripting, it's a breeze to run even without the GUI. I ran it on the command line, but this script would work too:

#!/bin/sh
cd /var/svc/org.webosinternals/saverestore
ls -1 | while read save; do
sh ./$save
done

...which just runs every script in there. It's humming right along now. I'm really going to miss a phone where disaster is averted with some simple knowledge. :-\

This is EXACTLY what I need right now. My pre2 won't boot past the HP logo, but I can access it via novaterm and get data with winscp. I want to doctor, but I want to make a backup, first.

I seem to have a little trouble, though. Here's what I did:
I entered the script by hand into a file, /media/internal/save.sh. (In the second line, I put cd /var/svc/org.webosinternals.saverestore, rather than /saverestore, since I think that's just a bug?)
I tried running the script with "sh save.sh".
It ran through the script and said "blah blah is not installed" for pretty much everything (since I don't have everything installed, heh), but I don't a saverestore folder. I do have Angry Birds and the Glu Transformers game, so I would expect at least *some* data would be backed up.

Any thoughts? Did I do something wrong? Thanks so much for this in the first place! It's really super helpful. To be honest, the data that would be lost if I can't get this to work is nothing I can't live without; this is more the "would be nice to have" portion of phone-data-recovery, before I Doctor.

[jrronimo]

Originally Posted by jrronimo

This is EXACTLY what I need right now. My pre2 won't boot past the HP logo, but I can access it via novaterm and get data with winscp. I want to doctor, but I want to make a backup, first.

I seem to have a little trouble, though. Here's what I did:
I entered the script by hand into a file, /media/internal/save.sh. (In the second line, I put cd /var/svc/org.webosinternals.saverestore, rather than /saverestore, since I think that's just a bug?)
I tried running the script with "sh save.sh".
It ran through the script and said "blah blah is not installed" for pretty much everything (since I don't have everything installed, heh), but I don't a saverestore folder. I do have Angry Birds and the Glu Transformers game, so I would expect at least *some* data would be backed up.

Any thoughts? Did I do something wrong? Thanks so much for this in the first place! It's really super helpful. To be honest, the data that would be lost if I can't get this to work is nothing I can't live without; this is more the "would be nice to have" portion of phone-data-recovery, before I Doctor.

Ah-HA! Figured it out.

So, the way the script is originally written:

#!/bin/sh
cd /var/svc/org.webosinternals/saverestore
ls -1 | while read save; do
sh ./$save
done

all it does is run each script without any arguments. However, from the documentation, each script needs an argument, such as "save".

So, to run every script with the "save" argument to make a backup, this would be a correct script:

#!/bin/sh
cd /var/svc/org.webosinternals.saverestore
ls -1 | while read save; do
sh ./$save save
done

On my machine, it generates a lot of errors and novaterm stops responding after a bit, but when I look in the saverestore folder, there seems to be lots saved.

So, for people as noobish as me, here's what you need to do to run saverestore from a command line:
1. Gain access to the command line. You'll probably end up there via novaterm or putty if you can't use your phone directly.
2. Enter the second version of the script in this post into vi. A command is: "vi /media/internal/save.sh" Press 'i' to be able to start typing. To quit & save: press ESC, then ":wq", then Enter. (no quotes around :wq)
3. type "/media/internal/save.sh"
4. copy the saverestore folder off of your phone!

[Jochen K.]

Originally Posted by ninjastorm

This (what?) might be a good information and possible to occur in a different period to the various solutions (which?).....

Huh??

[gizmo21]

Originally Posted by Tenchi-Man

Is it possible to support MojoWhatsup?

http://forums.webosnation.com/webos-...ml#post3355606

Made one for Mojowhatsup including mediafile backup, which can also be restored to another device for cloning the installation and having Mojowhatsup on e.g. Touchpad.
More info here:
http://forums.webosnation.com/webos-...ml#post3372056

As long as it is not in an updated Save&Restore package, extract it and move it to /var/svc/org.webosinternals.saverestore (moving e.g. with Internalz Pro) and start Save&Restore

Version2 online. Now with saving of profile pics

[John Steffes]

Save/Restore Script for AquaVenture...