DSL Embedded :: mydsl problem with frugal



Quote (mgmont @ July 05 2005,17:13)
The thing I do not understand is that by coping filetool.lst to xfiletool.lst, it seems that you would cause the filetool.sh script to exclude everything that you want to backup.  I am reasonablly new to DSL and I am trying to learn and understand as much as I can.

That is the way I understand it too. With xfiletool.lst being the same it would exclude everything that it was going to backup. It may not be giving an error anymore but is it working like you wanted it to?
@mgmont

Quote (mgmont @ July 05 2005,17:13)
Response to magicpio.  It sounds to me like you did not have a file named xfiletool.lst to begin with for some reason.  By doing the "cp /home/dsl/filetool.lst  /home/dsl/xfiletool.lst" command you created one which allowed the backup script to run error free.
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The thing I do not understand is that by coping filetool.lst to xfiletool.lst, it seems that you would cause the filetool.sh script to exclude everything that you want to backup.


Strange! One thing I can say for sure is that after installing DSL 1.1, updating to 1.2.1, deleting partition hda2 again, reinstalling 1.2.1 on hda2 from scratch, I did not have a xfiletool.lst in the /home/dsl folder. (hda1 is swap, hda3 is persisten opt and home, which I did never touch during all the messing with hda2)

Furthermore, my current xfiletool.lst contents is exactly the same as my filetool.lst, which would mean that what is included is completely excluded as well. Ergo no backup, which is not the case. My backup/restore works!
:O

Pio
I didn't see anything in the tar documentation, but it's possible that the include overrules the exclude.  
Typically you would add a directory to the include file, and specific files in that directory to the exclude file.  If you have a specific file in the include file, tar must assume that you want that file in the archive, regardless of whether it's also in the exclude file
Thanks Mikshaw.  That makes sense.  Now that my curiosity is up, I will have to play with that when I get a few spare minutes.
My 44 pin cf to ide adapter arrived in the mail yesterday.  Several posts back I had told roberts that I would test it out on a laptop and see if I still had the mydsl problem that I originally reported.

I purchased a new 512 meg cf and installed it and the adapter in a Micron TraansPort ZX.  I partitioned the cf as 60 meg for hda1 and the balance to hda2.  I did a Live cd frugal install from a fresh copy of DSL 1.2.1 that I just downloaded.  The first time I did the install exactly like the instructions by clivsey.  After the install , home opt and restore all appeared on hda2 but mydsl did not work on hda2.

I did a second install and this time I put the following in the boot options prompt of the install :  dsl mydsl=hda2 home=hda2 opt=hda2
I answered no to the question of do you want to specify another partition for mydsl and hda2 for the restore question.  After this install everything was right and worked correctly.

So for me, the original problem still exists on two different computers.

However, since I know a work around, I am very happy with the results.  The laptop is really fast compared to the original harddrive install.  Thanks Roberts and all you other people for such great system.
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