How to keep notes safe with fw 2.15, to keep using hacks?

[ONYX4407]

Hello, when the 3.0 update brings dramatic changes which includes Impossibility to open older notes when you downgrade RM2 to 2.x fw version, I am little worried about the future with my setup 2.15+ddvk..

I'm just 100% satisfied with that and I don't miss anything.

My question is, if you (or anybody) can give us some kind of guidance to make complete RM (binary) backup, as an image of whole device.

I think thats only way to keep all notes protected from being corrupted in case of an unwanted update or whatever.

Have you, or anybody an idea how to notes keeps safe?

Thank you!

[Eeems]

Here are steps to backup your notes and xochitl settings: https://eeems.website/toltec/#2-backup

As for a complete backup of the entire device, there are lots of tools for backing up something over SSH you could look into.

[ONYX4407]

Thanks for the tip of backup notes only,
but do you have any tip to a proven method how to make binary backup via SSH? (I'm not sure if it's possible while system running.

I have only the main rm so I just don't want to try any experiment with some risks...

[Eeems]

Thanks for the tip of backup notes only, but do you have any tip to a proven method how to make binary backup via SSH? (I'm not sure if it's possible while system running.

I have only the main rm so I just don't want to try any experiment with some risks...

You can't do a proper full binary backup of a running device. The filesystem is currently mounted and in a dirty state. You can look into https://github.com/ddvk/remarkable2-recovery if you'd really like to create images of the rM partitions. That said, I wouldn't really recommend it, the OS images are available and you can use them to reflash the OS and then re-transfer your data.

If you want to backup all your user data, you can backup /home instead as it's the data that carries over between upgrades.