Sharp Zaurus SL-C3000 Instruction Manual page 187

my Zaurus SL-C3000 and SL-C3100
aterm and multi-aterm, as well as rxvt are also available as alternative terminals and installed on
pdaXii13 by default. xterm which is a bit broken in pdaXrom has been fixed in pdaXii13 and displays
the fonts without the extra boxes.
Zaurus Backup
You should always backup your system since that is the only way to recover if something goes
wrong. The easiest way to backup is to archive everything using tar and then use gzip to compress
the archive.
I have created a script called zbackup which backs up the system and its configurations so you can
use the backup image generated by it to restore your system. The generated tgz file can be used to
restore pdaXii13 by simply renaming it to hdimage-custom.tgz and flashing it.
It is recommended to exit X before doing a backup. By default, the backup file will be placed under
/data
/opt, /data and /mnt will not be backed up as well as any other additional directories that you
create on /. zbackup has been enhanced to also generate an initrd.bin file for the NAND based
models so you can restore your Akita based pdaXii13 setup via a reflash. For C3100/C3200 which
have both NAND and MicroDrive, an initrd.bin as well as a tgz image of the MicroDrive which needs
to be renamed to hdimage-custom.tgz are generated by zbackup.
Zaurus Restore
When you want to restore your Zaurus to a previous backup after you have messed it up or you had
backed it up to try another distro and now decided you want to restore your previous backup to
recover your backed up state, all you need to do is follow the pdaXii13 installation guide to install
pdaXii13, but instead of using the hdimage that you can download, you use your backup file
instead. Find the backup file and rename it to hdimage-custom.tgz if you haven't already done so
and put it on your installation media (CF or SD card) instead of the hdimage-full.tgz or
hdimage-base.tgz file.
If you have a NAND based install of pdaXii13, ie. Sally instead of Alice, the backup would also had
created an initrd.bin file. Use that initrd.bin instead of the original initrd.bin to flash. This initrd.bin
basically contains the content of the original initrd.bin plus all your customisations.
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