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How do I back up Windows CE?

Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 12:38 am
by quotaholic
See tis tutorial:

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No USB Hub Needed-Theory!

Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 7:59 am
by volkswagner
My theory on creating a backup image .  Again this is a theory, not tested!

Ingredients:
  • Live Linux on USB with Functioning Touch Panel and virtual Keyboard, and room for additional partition
I realize that is a biggie!


If we have the above we can perform the following:

Re: How do I back up Windows CE?

Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:36 am
by Fleegman
Volkswagner, you're were kind of on the right track... but there's no need to use partitioning.  Now that there's a way to run NimbleX off a USB stick, just make a 4gb usb stick and then use the DD command to backup the entire internal drive card onto your 4GB stick in a single image file ... it's only 512mb, so there's plenty of room on the USB stick.

Just use a USB stick that has good read/writes.  I'm using a 4GB Kingston DataTravler and I get very good read/write speeds on it.

That way, in the event of a worse-case-scenario, you can boot off the 4gb USB stick and then use DD to restore your entire WebDT back to normal.

Because these are RAW images, they are perfect for a complete recovery solution.

Re: How do I back up Windows CE?

Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 10:03 am
by angrymeat
how do you get a terminal on that nimblex desktop I couldn't find one. also you can do the same thing booting form the knopix cd  feel free to add a nice DD tutorial  to my ghost method post I haven't used dd enough to write a guide for it .

Re: How do I back up Windows CE?

Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 10:27 am
by quotaholic
Couple times that I booted to nimblex my resolution was off. If you go "fishing" below view its next to the menu button. If you right click on the desktop you can "run a command". Try typing "konsole" there. I think thats the bundled terminal with KDE3

quotaholic

Re: How do I back up Windows CE?

Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 11:24 am
by angrymeat
doh I didn't think about that .

Re: How do I back up Windows CE?

Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 1:05 pm
by Fleegman
Another method is just bring up the KDE file browser, and tap the "F4" key on the XVKBD program ... that will launch a console window in whatever folder you are browsing.