**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Tue May 28 03:00:00 2013 May 28 06:11:03 anyone know if i can just use "dd" to backup a phone in it's entirety? or would that be totally screwed up if i restored it to a different phone that way? May 28 06:44:00 EricBlade1, dd from a running system doesn't really work May 28 06:44:32 dd from a membooted system with the FS in RAM and being able to do that...mucho moar bettah May 28 07:16:54 it would still work, ofcourse. May 28 07:17:15 simply the volumes would look like they were not properly dismounted. May 28 07:17:57 wich is what happens when you reboot after a crash. May 28 07:37:38 EricBlade1: be careful with the bootie-config partition .. device specific stuff there May 28 07:39:10 jcsullins, +1 May 28 07:39:39 I have a memboot image that I use for sucking stuff out. May 28 08:47:53 A lot of things are device specific. Even things that shouldn't. That is, if you do a restore to a different device (even if you only backup /dev/mmcblk0p3) it will not work and most likely trash your palm profile. May 28 08:49:24 As it stands, you can transplant the complete informations (you might want to save the accelerometer calibration info), only if you have the tools to change the modem's IMEI. May 28 08:49:52 which is possible but of doubious legality. May 28 08:51:48 Backupping the complete flash and restoring it to the same device it's possibile and it appears to work fine. May 28 08:52:09 (and there's no reason it shouldn't work) May 28 08:54:05 Whereas, backupping and restoring to a different device is comically complex. And the builtin "backup" feature is completely worthless. **** BEGIN LOGGING AT Tue May 28 14:16:22 2013 **** ENDING LOGGING AT Wed May 29 02:59:58 2013