<html><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html;charset=UTF-8"><meta content="Group-Office 2.17" name="GENERATOR"></head><body><p>James,<br />
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Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 00:32:55 -0700<br />
From: James Sparenberg <james@linuxrebel.org><br />
Subject: Re: Arg! My backup doesn't work!!!<br />
To: maemo-users@maemo.org<br />
Message-ID: <200708070032.55412.james@linuxrebel.org><br />
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Two possibles I can think of <br />
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1. switch the two cards (if you have an n800) I've found that doing this <br />
suddenly makes some things "appear" (this worked when I made the mistake of <br />
trying to transfer too much data via scp and "lost" the drive)<br />
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2. pull the card and use an external USB reader to read the data off . <br />
Re-format it and put the data back on. (This worked on my 770 one time)<br />
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James<br />
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<p>I'm wondering if I didn't explain the issue adequately... Everything on the card was fine. The data saved, the card was usable, etc.</p>
<p>What happened was that when I made the backup, for some reason, the backup.metadata file was not created properly. All of the backup Zip files were just fine (I was able to decomress them and retrieve some of my media and document data). But, the Backup/Restore app would not recognize that a backup had been made because the backup.metadata file was completely empty (i.e., just a blank document with no XML content).</p>
<p>I was wondering if there was a way to recreacte the metadata file in order that the BackupRestore app would see it... I couldn't find a way to easily know all of the filecounts, etc. that are contained in that file, though.</p>
<p>In any case, it's too late to try anything, as it's been a month or so since all of this happened. So, I'll just have to report back if it ever happens again.</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>Tim</p>
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