[mdlug] Partway through the grieving process

[Aaron Kulkis]

Ingles, Raymond wrote:
> So, I use the "Backup" utility on my Playstation 3, no errors. Use the
> "Install Other OS" option to repartition the disk, and install Ubuntu
> 9.04 into the 10GB partition I made. The install goes pretty smoothly,
> it boots up and connects to my WPA-encrypted wifi network without
> trouble.
> 
>  So, I use the "Restore" function to get back my PS3 data and... it
> errors out at 21%. Then it insists the hard drive is corrupt and needs
> to be reformatted. I've tried multiple different ways to restore,
> including copying the backup to another drive and restoring from there,
> but no dice.
> 
>  Apparently, everything's gone. The only thing that can't be easily
> replaced are the save games, which represent hours of time. That's
> *extremely* irritating. I should have backed up the save games
> specifically, but I had no reason suspect a problem with the backup.
> 
>  So, word of warning if you decide to put Linux on your PS3 - the backup
> utility is not totally reliable.
> 

That's rough.

So how is PS3 Linux?