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Hi,

you can use rsynch in combination with cronjob or a desktop icon.

regards

Patrick

Am Samstag, den 02.10.2010, 14:01 +0800 schrieb Paul Yu:
> Hi,
>
> Is there an app that can easily backup photos from the external SD
> card to the internal SD card?
>
> I've tried using the built in file manager several times and have
> accidentally deleted files on multiple occasions. Also selecting
> multiple files or directories seems difficult.
>
> Thanks.
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On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 14:01 +0800, Paul Yu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there an app that can easily backup photos from the external SD
> card to the internal SD card?
>
> I've tried using the built in file manager several times and have
> accidentally deleted files on multiple occasions. Also selecting
> multiple files or directories seems difficult.
>
> Thanks.
> _______________________________________________

Have you tried filebox? IMO, it's the easiest to use, full feature file
manager.

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> Is there an app that can easily backup photos from the external SD
> card to the internal SD card?
>
> I've tried using the built in file manager several times and have
> accidentally deleted files on multiple occasions. Also selecting
> multiple files or directories seems difficult.

>> you can use rsynch in combination with cronjob or a desktop icon.
>>

>>
>> Have you tried filebox? IMO, it's the easiest to use, full feature file
>> manager.

Thanks for the suggestions but I don't think I can get filebox to work
on N800/OS2008, and the rsync gui app doesn't work on OS2008 either.

Maybe a few terminal commands could do the job?

The built in file manager and manually copying files from the terminal
will work but are error prone and fiddly to figure out what has been
copied already and what is new.

PS. To clarify, I will be taking photos on holiday and want to backup
the photos on the SD(s) to another SD incrementally daily. The
internal SD may get full and I will swap it out for another one.

The alternative would be to bring a netbook and copy the photos to the HDD.
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Am Montag, den 04.10.2010, 01:09 +0800 schrieb Paul Yu:
> Thanks for the suggestions but I don't think I can get filebox to work
> on N800/OS2008, and the rsync gui app doesn't work on OS2008 either.
>
> Maybe a few terminal commands could do the job?

rsync is a terminal command.

regards Patrick

Am Montag, den 04.10.2010, 01:09 +0800 schrieb Paul Yu:
>> Thanks for the suggestions but I don't think I can get filebox to work
>> on N800/OS2008, and the rsync gui app doesn't work on OS2008 either.
>>
>> Maybe a few terminal commands could do the job?

>rsync is a terminal command.


Not on my terminal.

>regards Patrick


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On marted? 05 ottobre 2010, alle 02:26, Paul Yu wrote:
>
> >rsync is a terminal command.
>
>
> Not on my terminal.

You can try rcp is another terminal command similar to rsync.

Donato
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On 06/10/10 10:00, maemo-users-request@maemo.org wrote:

>>> rsync is a terminal command.
>>
>>
>> Not on my terminal.
>
> You can try rcp is another terminal command similar to rsync.

Rsync isn't installed as part of the standard build, but needs to be
installed from the repositories (Extras, I think).

Rsync is better for backups than rcp, because it will only transfer
files that have changed, whereas rcp (or scp, which I prefer) will
transfer everything, whether it's changed or not.
--
Tony Green
Ipswich, Suffolk, England
www.beermad.org.uk/
www.suffolkcamra.co.uk/pubs/

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Thanks for everyone's consensus. I was initially worried I would have
to go down the rabbit hole of command-line package installation and
dependency hell after not finding it on maemo.org for N800/OS2008.

However, I did find grsync (graphical sync) using the search function
in the Application Manager (who knew it was there? ;-)

Is there anyway to span files across multiple destination SD cards
with it still knowing what I've already backed up? Otherwise I guess
I'll need a 16GB SD or figure out a system of card swapping.

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> Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 11:20:10 +0100
> From: Tony Green <tony@beermad.org.uk>
> Subject: Re: SD photo backup app
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> On 06/10/10 10:00, maemo-users-request@maemo.org wrote:
>
>>>> rsync is a terminal command.
>>>
>>>
>>> Not on my terminal.
>>
>> You can try rcp is another terminal command similar to rsync.
>
> Rsync isn't installed as part of the standard build, but needs to be
> installed from the repositories (Extras, I think).
>
> Rsync is better for backups than rcp, because it will only transfer
> files that have changed, whereas rcp (or scp, which I prefer) will
> transfer everything, whether it's changed or not.
> --
> Tony Green
> Ipswich, Suffolk, England
> www.beermad.org.uk/
> www.suffolkcamra.co.uk/pubs/
>
> * No Micro$oft products were used in the generation of this communication
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