Other Help Topics :: How do I speed up startup and shutdown?

[quote=^thehatsrule^,Jan. 14 2008,11:49][/quote]

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291mb compressed data... no wonder it takes so long.

Since you're already have a persistent home ("home=hda3") there is no need to restore and backup. I suppose you could delete the backup.tar.gz and/or boot with norestore.

In other words, home=hda3 and the restore/backup (to hda3) option are incompatible with each other. Correct?

If I'm using home=hda3, then the restore/backup should be on external media (such as sda1) and not hda3. Correct?

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In other words, home=hda3 and the restore/backup option are incompatible with each other. Correct?

No, I think "redundant" is the correct word. Your data are already on the partition. Do you need a back up of everything that's on that partition? Weed out what you don't need backed up. I don't use restore if I already have /home and mydsl on a partition, I just back up files as needed.

EDIT: The backup won't do you any good if it's on that partition (which is already persistent) if it crashes.

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