Backing up New TomTom One

I've just ordered my TomTom One Europe from Amazon (£114.99) and the first
thing I want to do tomorrow after charging the battery is to backup all the
data on the internal memory. I'm about to download the latest TomTom Home
software, but any advise how to do this properly would be much appreciated.

Graham

Don't use TomTom HOME for backup. Take a full copy of the memory and
save to a folder on your PC.

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Darren Griffin
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I had a dig around while waiting for any views from TomTom users and must
say I was wondering that myself. Seems its just a case of copying the
contents of the TomTom to a folder on my computer and from what I can tell
the TomTom Home software overwrites the previous backup everytime you do it.
No thanks TomTom.

I'll take your advise and won't use it for backing up. Is it worth
installing Home for anything else?

Graham

Graham wrote:
As Darren says, the best back-up is direct from the TT to your PC, then
you can always put that one back as an ultimate fix. Allow about an hour
each way. TomTom Home will do a back-up, but it only holds one version,
the first one is a full copy then later ones are incremental, ie the
changes only, which is much faster but little use if the last back-up
held the seeds of the problem. You can make Home put back-ups in your
choice of location, so it is possible with a bit of fiddling to make it
hold multiple copies. Otherwise Home is good, but slow, for handling
software updates, mapshare corrections, and Speed camera updates if you
get these. Also it handles the "quickfix" files that are supposed to
speed up satellite finding at switch on

Thanks for your advise, especially how long it takes to do the first backup
as I would have been wondering if all was well if I didn't know it took so
long. I copied all the files across to my computer as soon as I had charged
the battery (via USB) and before I altered *any* menu settings. It copied
across 945MB (401 files and 30 folders) so not much spare for speed camera
info, updates, poi's etc, but I suppose 55MB is quite a lot for small
config/text files. Oddly after setting the language and the settings it asks
you to select in the introduction this file count went down to 347 files in
30 folders and 937MB. Just set language, time, daytime/nightime views and
voice personality (Jane) but refused the offer to put in my home location
for security reasons.

Does any LINUX expert know if the files copied include all the system files
it needs, or does it hold some operating system files in a BIOS or ROM type
system. I must say I am becoming curious about how the OS works and could it
ever run on a Linux machine? I have not taken much interest in Linux over
the years, even though I have installed various versions with success, but
never got into using it of the system running under the GUI. I know DOS
well, but could not bring myself to learn the Linux/unix os commands.

Very nice day in East Anglia today, so can't stay indoors playing with
electronics, but looking forward to getting used to the TomTom this evening.

Thanks for helpful replies
Regards
Graham