Of course, you were right about a massive 'prompt; mget *' ftp. I was just trying to answer a 'drive image' question.

However, I am not sure whether dummy sync is enough when restoring, or whether removal of database, fids and playlists from /etc/var is called for. I remember that once, when playing with my new unit that relegated the original one to backup status, I got no playlists in emplode, although everything was there in fids. I actually had to delete /empeg/var/playlists to resurect them. However, I think that in the extreme case of restoring the complete player dropping to shell and deleting three files is not a big deal for any user, however Linux-challenged they might be.